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Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)


In this photograph taken in the spring of 1865, Ulysses S. Grant is seen wearing a black mourning band around his left arm in remembrance of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, which occurred five days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.


Frederick Gutekunst (1831–1917)
Albumen silver print, 1865
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Forrest H. Kennedy

 

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