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Grant from West Point to Appomattox, an 1885 lithograph by
Thure de Thulstrup of events in the military career of
U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, who died that year. Clockwise from lower left: graduation from
West Point (1843); in the tower at
Chapultepec (1847); drilling volunteer soldiers (1861); the
Battle of Fort Donelson (1862); the
Battle of Shiloh (1862); the
Siege of Vicksburg (1863); the
Battle of Chattanooga (1863); appointment as Commander-in-Chief by
Abraham Lincoln (1864); and the surrender of
Robert E. Lee at
Appomattox Court House (1865).
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