Image of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, with both men in military uniform standing before a large tree in the foreground, and soldiers on horseback in the immediate background, with troops and a military camp in a field with hills and the village of Appomattox, Virginia, in the distance.
Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the view prints were transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.
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Image of Union General Ulysses S. Grant meeting with Confederate General Robert E. Lee under a tree accepting the surrender of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War; military officers stand nearby; forces from both armies and American flags along the hilly ground in the distance.
Image of a family portrait of Union General Ulysses S. Grant in military uniform on horseback and his family posed before the White House in Washington, D.C., with the United States Capitol building in the far distance; his family consists of a son in military uniform on horseback, a daughter on a pony, a dog, and his wife Julia Dent Grant standing with two sons.
Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback with sword in an upraised hand riding across a battlefield leading soldiers on foot and on horses in a charge; dead and wounded soldiers on the ground amidst cannon shot.
Image of the city of Veracruz, Veracruz-Llave, Mexico, surrendering after being besieged by American forces during the Mexican-American War; Mexican officers are pictured offering a sword in surrender to United States General Winfield Scott and other U.S. officers on a grassy knoll; Mexican soldiers vacate the city while American flags are raised over the city of Veracruz in the background.
Image of Union and Confederate officers on horseback meeting as Union General Nathaniel P. Banks accepts the surrender of Port Hudson, Louisiana, during the American Civil War; guns are stacked by Confederate soldiers and a Confederate flag is gathered at left; artillery unit and soldiers line the coastline in background.
