Artist Statement – Ulysses S. Grant- Jacques Rapaport- Michaels Office

Ulysses S. Grant was a general in the Union army. After the war he became a president. The picture of Grant holding the burning Confederate flag symbolizes how he destroys the Confederates army in tactics and by destroying everything in his way in the south. The U.S. flag represents how he won the war for the Union. The torch that he’s holding is the one that he lit the flag on fire. It represents the tactic of “total war” where you completely destroy the enemy’s food, supplies and stuff like that.