. The photographic history of the civil . IN THE AUTUMN OF 1863—GRANTS CHANGING EXPRESSIONS Although secure in his fame as the conqueror of Vicksburg, Grant still has the greater part of his destiny to fulfil as he facesthe camera. Before him lie the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, fold Harbor, and the slow investment of Petersburg. This seriesforms a particularly interesting study in expression. At the left hand, the face looks almost amused. In the next the ex-pression is graver, the mouth close set. The third picture looks plainly obstinate, and in the last the stern fighter mighthave been
. The photographic history of the civil . IN THE AUTUMN OF 1863—GRANTS CHANGING EXPRESSIONS Although secure in his fame as the conqueror of Vicksburg, Grant still has the greater part of his destiny to fulfil as he facesthe camera. Before him lie the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, fold Harbor, and the slow investment of Petersburg. This seriesforms a particularly interesting study in expression. At the left hand, the face looks almost amused. In the next the ex-pression is graver, the mouth close set. The third picture looks plainly obstinate, and in the last the stern fighter mighthave been declaring, as in the following spring: I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. The eyes,first unveiled fully in this fourth view, are the unmistakable index to Grants stern inflexibility, once his decision was made.
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