U. S. Civil War Photographs - Grant's Promotion to General-in-Chief

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U.S. GRANT'S PROMOTION
TO GENERAL-IN-CHIEF
OF THE UNION ARMIES

	Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., March 10th 1864.
	Under the authority of the act of Congress to revive the grade of Lieut- enant General in the United States Army, approved February 29th 1864, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant U. S. Army is assigned to the command of the armies of the United States. (S) Abraham Lincoln