Photo of the Day

No. 537

the division sowed by ignorance

Mathew Brady photographs of U.S. Grant. Left: after Grant's defeat at Cold Harbor, VA, June 1864. Right: during Grant's second presidential term, c. 1875.

Ulysses S. Grant addressed a reunion of Civil War veterans from Tennessee in September 1875, during his sixth year as President.

While the veterans hailed him as their victorious former commander, Grant used the occasion to speak about the imperative of universal, secular public education for both Black and White children.

Grant campaign pin and campaign collar, bearing images of Grant and his running mate, Schuyler Colfax, 1868. Grant's campaign slogan: "Let Us Have Peace." He served as the nation's 18th president, from 1869 until 1877.

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