Photograph of Brig. General Lewis A. Grant and His men, Medal of Honor Award, for His Assault at Salem Chrurch, Virginia, May 3, 1863.
Item #025292
Photograph measures 9" x 7" on mounted cardboard. All ten men identified by rank and last name. He was a well known lawyer in Vermont when he enlisted with the 5th Vermont Infantry, which he led through the Battle of Fredericksburg and he assumed command of the famed Vermont Brigade where he displayed "Personal Gallantry ... in the management of his brigade and in leading it in the assault in which he was wounded at Salem Church." Upon his recovery he led his brigade at Gettysburg and later received a severe head wound in the siege and assault at Petersburg though he returned to join the Appomattox campaign. After the war, Leis Grant lived in Illinois where his son was born whom he named Ulysses Serman Grant and became a professor of geology at Northwestern University. An eleventh (unidentified man) is at the extreme left in the second row of the picture.
Price: $175.00