101. Grant, Ulysses S. Carte-de visite photograph signed (“U.S. Grant, Lt. Gen. USA”) by T.F. Saltsman, successor to C. C. Giers, Corner Union & College sts., Nashville, Tenn. (on verso), (4 x 2.5 in.; 98 x 63 mm); some soiling.

Though the image of Grant shows him in his major general’s uniform with two stars on the shoulder strap, his signature bearing the rank of Lieutenant General dates the present image to some time after 10 March 1864. It was on that date that Lincoln promoted Grant to a rank not used since George Washington. Lincoln asked Congress to revive the rank to differentiate the general in command of the entire Union army from other commanders ranked as generals. As Lieutenant General, Lincoln as Commander in Chief was Grant’s only superior officer.

The photograph is accompanied by forty additional photographs including one of Abraham Lincoln, an image of Vermont Memorial Hall, an image of the schoolhouse in Sycamore, Illinois and no less than thirty-seven Civil War Officers including William Tecumseh Sherman, George McClellan, Nathaniel Banks, George Meade among a host of others.
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