frederickdentgrant

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Here is article about Stewart Woodford en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Woodford In this NYTimes article the Times identifies him as: "General Stewart L. Woodford, former Minister to Spain, Civil War soldier, Lieutenant Governor of New York State, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a prominent figure for many years in the Republican Party." (He died in 1913). select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D1EF83B58177A...

Thanks for the information. We'll add a note to the source catalog.

I share some blood with this old bean!

This was taken on Broadway and Houston Street--the building on the left with the wide arches is the Cable Building (McKim, Mead & White, 1894). Houston was later widened in part thanks to subway construction, meaning that some of the buildings closest to the photographer are now long gone.

This would be the funeral of Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, U.S. Army, who died April 12, 1912, while commanding general of the Department of the East with headquarters at Governor's Island in New York Harbor. General Grant was the son of Ulysses S. Grant. There is a small collection of Frederick Dent Grant papers at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.

The date at the top says Feb 25, 1911. I beleive that's General Frederick Dent Grant (son of General Ulysses S. Grant) and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Grant sucumbed to cancer on April 11, 1912.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Dent_Grant

Left: Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950) See also this picture of Secy Stimson & Ge. Grant at lawn party. It is interesting that hanging behind Stimson is the 45-star (pre-Oklahoma) U.S. flag which was replaced by the 46-star version in 1908. Maybe the obscured flag on the right is the contemporary 46-star flag displayed beside the "old" one. In a year's time from this photo, the U.S. would have the 48-star flag that would remain unchanged until 1959.

Maybe its the Fourth of July?

The lawn party was an annual fundraising event for the Army Relief Society, which provided for widows and orphans of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army. General Frederick Dent Grant, the Army's commanding officer on Governor's Island, was the host on this occasion. General Grant, the son of former President U. S. Grant, resided on the island, and died there, in 1912. We have been misreading the date on this photo as February, but in fact the 1911 party was held on May 25: that's a "5" in the date, not a "2." In response to an email query, Mike Shaver, National Park Service Ranger/Historian at the Governors Island National Monument, provided the date of May 25, 1911, for this event, and also noted that Stimson had been appointed Secretary of War only a few weeks earlier, in that same month. Here is a photo of the lawn party, going full blast: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2163472204/in/p...