Pictures, Images and Photographs Of Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was one of the most photographed men of the 19th century. All images on this page are from the Library of Congress unless otherwise noted.

This June 4, 1864 photograph shows Grant with with war horse, Cincinnati.
This photograph shows Ulysses S. Grant at his Cold Harbor headquarters on June 11 or 12, 1864.
This sketch depicts Brigadier General Grant in his dress uniform.
 
Massaponax Church, Va. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (left end of bench nearest tree) writing a dispatch. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Massaponax Church, Va. 'Council of War': Gen. Ulysses S. Grant examining map held by Gen. George G. Meade. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
City Point, Va. Rear view of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
 
Composite of five portraits: General Grant, Captain Lagow, Capt. Hillyer, J.A. Rawlins and Dr. Simons. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
City Point, Va. Members of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's staff. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Includes photographer Mathew Brady, standing at far left. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War. (Petho Cartography.)
 
This photograph shows Major General Grant in uniform.
This Alexander Gardner portrait was taken just a few weeks after Union General-in-Chief Grant accepted General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Virginia.
This 1865 Frederick Getukunst photograph was taken in the spring sometime after President Lincoln's assisination; Grant is wearing a black mourning band around his left arm.
 
This 1866 photograph shows Major General Grant in uniform.
This 1892 William Sartain engraving of an 1866 Christian Schussele painting shows Grant in uniform sitting on horseback.
This 1866 William Sartain engraving shows Grant at a desk with the U.S. Capitol Building in the background.
 
This photograph of Grant was taken between 1865 and 1885.
This photograph of Grant was taken between 1869 and 1877.
This photograph of Grant was taken between 1870 and 1885.
 
This photograph of Grant was taken in 1880.
 
This photograph of Grant's wife, Julia Dent Grant, was taken between 1869 and 1877.
This photograph of Julia Dent Grant was taken between 1870 and 1880.
This 1880 photograph shows Grant, Jesse Grant, and Julia Dent Grant on the porch of their summer home in Long Branch, New Jersey.