Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Medal
Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Medal
- Description (Brief)
- This presidential 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 that is still in business today. Scovill was an early industrial American innovator, adapting armory manufacturing processes to mass-produce a variety of consumer goods including campaign medals.
- Obverse: Bust of Ulysses S. Grant facing left. Legend: GRANT & COLFAX REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES 1868.
- Reverse: Two branches rim the edge, with two crossed flags, a drum, and bayoneted rifles at the base of the branches. Legend: FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS SOLDIERS.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- referenced
- Colfax, Schuyler
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- Measurements
- overall: 3 cm; 1 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1117
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1117
- related event
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
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- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Military
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
