Grant MOH recipient with Grant's Appomattox Court House chair

Mike Serpa

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"Portrait of Union veteran Captain Wilmon Whilldin Blackmar of Co. K, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment and Co. H, 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, standing next to the chair in which General Ulysses S. Grant sat during General Robert E. Lee's surrender, presented to Blackmar by his friend and comrade Major General Henry Capehart." - LOC
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Blackmar bequeathed it to the Smithsonian. Grant's chair with General Lee's chair and oval table.
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https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=34

Blackmar - Medal of Honor at Five Forks
Capehart - Medal of Honor at Greenbrier River
 
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