According to the library, "this photograph is a montage or composite of several images and does not actually show General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point." Notes on the photo explain that the scene ...

Without his son's approval, he secured him a spot at West Point (when Jesse Grant found out a neighbor boy had dropped out of the academy, he lobbied their local congressman for Ulysses' appointment).

What photographs did Handy use to create his fake image? Lets start with Grant’s head. The face in the picture is Grant’s, but it sits on the body at an odd angle, and if the image was made in ...

Grant’s 38-year-old great-great-grandson, Ulysses S. Grant VI, had seen the picture before, but didn’t examine it closely until late January. A tall figure in the distance caught his eye ...

Ulysses Grant Dietz was born and raised in Syracuse as a boy with two important names. The first, of his great-great-grandfather Ulysses S. Grant ... a piece of the big picture.” ...

Pictured: Grant with his racehorse Cincinnati Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Library of Congress, Newspapers.com When police officer William Henry West pulled over Ulysses S.

Chances are, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time studying images of Julia Grant. But if you have, you may have noticed that nearly all representations of Ulysses S. Grant’s wife (the pair ...

For much of his life, Ulysses S. Grant failed ... other chores. Jesse Grant realized early on that Hiram would never make it as a businessman. In 1839 Jesse sent the boy to the United States ...