The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Grant’s Last Battle

The Story Behind the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Emerging Civil War Series

By Chris Mackowski and Kristopher D. White

SB – Savas Beatie

California

(2015)

ISBN-13: 978-1-61121-160-3

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015943486

Guinea-Bissau, Africa (circa 1956)

This standing sculpture of Grant as presidente was commissioned in recognition of Grant’s 1870 arbitration of a dispute between Portugal and Great Britain over the former colony. The Portuguese government commissioned sculptor Manuel Pereira da Silva to create the monument, which was erected in the main square of Guinea-Bissau’s capital city, Bissau. It later survived the wave of destruction that destroyed many of the other monuments representing the nation’s colonial past. In August 2007, however, the Grant sculpture disappeared and was discovered in pieces, probably for use as scrap metal. Police were able to recover all of the pieces except Grant’s head, but they still hope to recover that piece and reassemble the statue.