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Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman in a Council of War

Generals Grant and Sherman

Engraving by W. Sartain. Published 1865. Image size: 12 wide by 7 7/8 inches. Accession 2962.

Grant and Sherman along with General George Thomas were the Union military triumvirate which defeated the Confederacy in the American Civil War (1861-1865)--the period of American history when our laws and legal institutions were tested to the utmost.