Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Medal
Ulysses S. Grant Campaign Medal
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- Description (Brief)
- This presidential campaign medal was made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company 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 buttons, daguerreotype mats, and campaign medals. Grant issued the reverse quote during the Overland Campaign of the Civil War.
- Obverse: Bust of Grant facing forward. Legend: GENERAL U.S. GRANT 1868.
- Reverse: Two branches and four stars. Legend: I PROPOSE TO FIGHT IT OUT ON THIS LINE IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- medal, political
- date made
- ca 1868
- depicted
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- maker
- Scovill Manufacturing Company
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Waterbury
- Physical Description
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.8 cm; 1 1/8 in
- ID Number
- 1981.0296.1134
- accession number
- 1981.0296
- catalog number
- 1981.0296.1134
- Credit Line
- Scovill, Inc.
- Presidential Campaign of 1868
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- Work and Industry: Production and Manufacturing
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Military
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Scovill Manufacturing Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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