• General Grant National Memorial

    General Grant

    National Memorial New York

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Grant on Missionary Ridge, to the right of General George H. Thomas

In 1966, mosaic murals by Allyn Cox were added to three lunettes inside Grant's Tomb. The murals portray scenes from three of Grant's greatest campaigns.

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Grant & Lee shake hands at Appomattox

After the Civil War, calls went out for Confederate leaders to be tried for treason. Ulysses S. Grant insisted that Robert E. Lee, who had been paroled at Appomattox, could not be put on trial, and the matter was dropped. More...