A group of veteran ribbons and ephemera related to veteran and ex-prisoner of war, George W. Grant, Co. G, 7th Pennsylvania Infantry and Co. B, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry, POW Gettysburg. Items include:

1. Small portrait of Grant affixed to yellow ribbon with gilt "ILLINOIS" blue ribbon and faux flower. 

2. Hand-woven hempen chain with a note reading: "This chain was made in Libby Prison to Geo. W. Grant by the man who made it while both were confined there during Civil War." 

3. Women's Relief Corps two-piece badge with tri-color ribbon 1886. 

4. Minnesota G.A.R. Two-piece copper badge with red ribbon. 1889. Verso reads "Department Badge / Adopted 1889 / Made of Minnesota Copper".

5. Pendant & chain. Pendant reads: "George W. / Grant / 7-17-18 / 9-11-96 / U.S.N.R.F" with a fingerprint to verso. 

6. Metal pin reading "G.W. Grant".

7. Three (3) Union Ex-Presioners of War. 22d Annual Reunion. Printed ribbons. 

8. Union Ex-Prisoners of War. Shield-shaped brass badge. Louisville, Kentucky, 1895. Affixed to 29th National Encampment G.A.R. Silver gilt-printed navy and grey ribbon. Louisiville, Kentucky, 1895. 

9. Andersonville 1864 / Death Before Dishonor. Celluloid badge. Affixed to Union Ex-Priosners of War As'n of Western Mass. Silver gilt-printed yellow ribbon. Greenfield, Massachusetts, 1911. 

10. Three (3) 20th-century snapshots, one showing a military ship, and another with an airplane on the deck of an aircraft carrier. 

11. Metal jaw harp. 

George W. Grant (1842-1901) initially served a 3-month term with the 7th Pennsylvania Infantry at the very start of the war, first enlisting on 23 April 1861. After a brief respite at home, Grant re-enlisted on 12 September 1861 as a private into Company B of the 88th Pennsylvania Infantry. They saw heavy action, fighting in major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Grant was promoted several times during the campaign, reaching 2nd Lieutenant on 1 November 1862, and 1st Lieutenant on 10 April 1863.  

On the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Grant was captured as a prisoner of war. He was confined in Macon, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. He was discharged on 25 April 1865. 

After the war, he served as the postmaster general of Reading, Pennsylvania and was involved in Republican poltics. "Upon his retirement he went West and traveled for a time as a lecturer with the Cyclorama of the Battle of [Gettysburg]. Later he located in Minneapolis where he became prominent in the G. A. R., becoming its commander and holding other positions." (Reading Times​​​​​​, 20 April 1901, p. 3). Many of these items date from when he was a member of Keim Post, No.76 and also the ex-Union Prisoners of War Association. 

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards] [Veterans, Veterans’ Organizations, Fraternal Organizations] [GAR, Grand Army of the Republic]