Warren Perry of the National Portrait Gallery has just released this video about the other man in my wife’s life. The room with the Balling portrait of Grant is our favorite space in the NPG. If you visit, be certain to look at the details in the frame.
One for the Hayfoot
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Posted in Museums, Ulysses S. Grant (General and President)
The Strawfoot 
Grant is one of my favorites.
George, thanks for the comment. Grant has been a favorite of mine since I was a kid, on a par even with Lincoln. He made mistakes (Cold Harbor, for instance), but it is hard to see anyone else bringing the war to a successful conclusion the way he did. Right now I am halfway though Bruce Catton’s Grant Moves South, which covers the war in the West. I’m hoping to get back to Grant’s Tomb in the next few weeks. We visited in March of last year just before the new Visitor’s Center opened in April on Grant’s birthday.