General GrantFrank Richards carved a series of patriotic figures, including United States presidents Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, and George Washington. Each figure took him about three months to carve, working evenings and winters when he did not have lots of farming work to do.Richards probably used prints of photographs or etchings of the presidents to model his figures, which he also painted. General Ulysses S. Grant, a native of Illinois and leader of the Union Army, is carved sitting on his horse.
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