Waist-up studio view of Granger. He wears a double-breasted coat with general’s shoulder straps. Image is clear with very good contrast. Image and mount are in very good condition. A pencil identification, “G. Granger” is on the bottom of the mount. Photographer’s imprint is on the front and the backmark is: "Brady’s” New York.

Gordon Granger (November 6, 1821 – January 10, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War, where he distinguished himself at the Battle of Chickamauga.

Granger is best remembered for issuing General Order No. 3 on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, further informing residents of, and enforcing, Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which set all Confederate states' slaves free on January 1, 1863. June 19 is now commemorated by the federal holiday of Juneteenth.

Despite successes at Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, his outspokenness and bluntness with his superiors, including General Grant, prevented him from gaining more prominent commands. He was sent to the Department of the Gulf under General E. R. S. Canby.

Granger remained in the Army after mustering out from volunteer service. In July 1866, he was assigned as a colonel to the reconstituted 25th Infantry Regiment. On January 10, 1876, Granger died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was serving in command of the District of New Mexico. He is buried at Lexington Cemetery in Kentucky.

This image was part of the Ray Ritchie collection. [jet] [ph:L]

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