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1 photoprint : albumen, on card mount ; mount 10 x 7 cm
Half length portrait of Granger with thick beard, sitting, facing slightly right. He is a wearing Union Army officer's uniform, a buttoned up double breasted coat with general's shoulder straps.
Title from contemporary handwritten caption on recto.
Granger was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, where he distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamaug in Georgia. After the war Granger was given command of the District of Texas where he is best known for issuing General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, further informing residents of, and enforcing, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which set all Confederate states' slaves free on January 1, 1863. This event is commemorated annually as the federal holiday of Juneteenth.