Title: Ulysses S. Grant age forty-two Description: A photograph of Ulysses S. Grant (Hiran Ulysses Simpson Grant; April 27, 1822-July 23, 1885), at age forty-two in March, 1864 when President Lincoln appointed him Lieutenant General and general-in-chief of the Union Army in March, 1864, a post he held for the remainder of the war and to 1869 when he became the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877); the photograph by Mathew B. Brady (1822-January 15, 1896), was taken in 1864 at Cold Harbor, Virginia; the Battle of Cold Harbor was fought May 31-June 12, 1864, one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War (1861-1865) and a major victory for the South, with 13,000 Union casualties and 2,500 Confederate casualties. Study Application Notes: Abraham Lincoln ("Honest Abe," "The Rail Splitter," "The Great Emancipator"), born February 25, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky, died April 15, 1865 in Washington, D.C.; sixteenth President of the U.S. (1861-1865); Lincoln was self-taught, moving at age twenty-two to Illinois in 1831, working on a flatboat, then later as a rail-splitter and store clerk, until moving to Springfield, Illinois to work as a lawyer in 1837; he served four terms as a state representative from Sangamon County, Illinois as a Whig; he married Mary Todd (Mary Anne Todd; December 13, 1818-July 16, 1882) in 1842, a union that produced four sons: Robert Todd Lincoln (August 1, 1843-July 26, 1926); Edward "Eddie" Baker Lincoln (March 10, 1846-February 1, 1850); William "Willie" Wallace Lincoln (December 21, 1850-February 20, 1862); and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (April 4, 1853-July 16, 1871); Background Information: Lincoln was narrowly elected the sixteenth President of the U.S. in 1860 as a Republican. He worked hard to preserve the Union, though eleven southern States had seceded and a Civil War ensued; his Emancipation Proclamation, announced on September 22, 1862 and put into effect on January 1, 1863, essentially freed the slaves and, with his Gettysburg Address, are some of the greatest documents ever produced by an American President; Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. shot by American stage actor John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838-April 26, 1865) and died the next day; Lincoln is buried in the Lincoln Tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois; several films profile Lincoln, the most notable being Abraham Lincoln (1930), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); Category: Political Figures Topic: U.S. Presidents Subject: Abraham Lincoln Keywords: Abraham Lincoln Collection, American Civil War (1861-1865), Battle of Cold Harbor, battles, Cold Harbor, Virginia, generals, presidents of the U.S., U.S. generals, U.S. presidents. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1800 x 2785 (5.01 MPixels) (1.55) Print Size: 15.2 x 23.6 cm; 6.0 x 9.3 inches File Size: 14.37 MB (15,067,540 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000530234 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
|