General Grant Looking Over the Battlefield at Fort Donelson General Grant at the Battle of Fort Donelson
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@ Chicago History Museum
Philippoteaux, Paul
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This painting shows a snowy landscape with Gen. U. S. Grant on horseback at center overlooking a sloping battlefield with cannon fire in the near distance and wooded hills and a river in the far distance. In the foreground is a broken tree, a dead and bleeding horse, a dead soldier in a pool of blood, and a wounded soldier being carried off by African Americans. Signed "P. (?) Philippoteaux" at lower right.
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