1https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/93312/fullGeneral Ulysses S. Grant Medal1868[Hugues Bovy, United States Mint]Hugues BovyBronzeRound bronze medal with high-level relief decoration on the front and back. The obverse features a left profile bust of General Ulysses S. Grant, Commander-General of the Union Armies and the Eighteenth President of the United States. The reverse features an inscription from part of a dispatch sent by Grant from Spottsylvania in May of 1864, in the midst of the Civil War.Metalworkhttps://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/27718/rdf