The Man Who Saved the Union (120 page)

At City Point, Virginia, 1864

Headquarters at City Point

Heroically rendered for popular consumption

Lincoln, showing the strain of the agonizing conflict

Edwin M. Stanton, the war secretary who spied on Grant

Robert E. Lee’s surrender, reimagined

Grant for president, 1868

Young Jesse, Julia and Nellie

For reelection, 1872

At Long Branch, New Jersey, where the Grant family spent summers, with Jesse and Julia

The peace policy symbolized: Grant meets with Indian chiefs

Grant in the Southern press, after he used the army to safeguard civil rights in Louisiana

Elder statesman and world traveler

At Mount McGregor, racing death to finish his memoirs