The Man Who Saved the Union (119 page)

Birthplace at Point Pleasant, Ohio

Earliest photograph of Grant
(left)
, with the army in Louisiana, 1845

Hardscrabble, the Missouri home Grant built for his young family

Henry W. Halleck, Grant’s ambivalent superior

Jesse Grant, his father

Grant, suddenly famous though barely recognizable, after the battle of Fort Donelson, 1862

At Chattanooga, 1863

The siege of Vicksburg, 1863

Abraham Lincoln promotes Grant, 1864

At Cold Harbor, 1864

With John Rawlins
(left)
, his fiercely loyal adjutant

George G. Meade the victor at Gettysburg and Grant’s subordinate in the Virginia campaign

William T. Sherman Grant’s closest friend and most capable lieutenant

Consulting his generals in Virginia, 1864 (Grant is the one bending over the back of the bench to see the map)