Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Campaign Medal
Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Connecticut around 1868. The Scovill Company was established in 1802 as a button manufacturer, and is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods like campaign medals. This medal has a quote issued by Grant during the Overland Campaign of the Civil War.
- Obverse: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant facing forward, the legend reads: GENERAL U.S. GRANT.
- Reverse: Legend reads: I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1084
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1084
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Military
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
