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The Council of War
In this group sculpture, General Ulysses S. Grant (standing, left) lays out his plans for an unrelenting campaign against the Confederacy in Virginia and throughout the South to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and a seated President Lincoln. Stanton described this actual meeting, or council of war, which occurred in Washington in August 1864.
The artist [John Rogers ] patented this sculpture in 1868 and sold plaster replicas such as this one for twenty-five dollars. |