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Harper's Weekly, February 6, 1864
Ulysses S. Grant came to personify the war for Union, earning that status through a series of landmark victories in the Western and Eastern Theaters that began at Fort Donelson and culminated at Appomattox. Thomas Nast created this tribute for the cover of Harper's Weekly just before Grant became general in chief. Columbia pins a congressional medal on the hero, who stands opposite the base of a flag-bedecked column inscribed "UNION." |