This circa 1902 photo by photographer Levin Corbin Handy, titled “General Grant at City Point,” purports to show General Ulysses S. Grant posing on a horse with a large number of soldiers in the background, but it’s actually a combination of three different photos.
Grant's head is from an 1864 portrait of Grant by photographer Edgar Guy Fowx:
The horse and rider’s body is from an 1864 portrait of Major Gen. Alexander M. McCook:
The background is an 1864 photo of Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Fisher’s Hill, Virginia:
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