The Very First Photoshopped Picture?

His military genius was a decisive factor in the Union Army winning the Civil War.

So you might think this photograph showing General Ulysses S. Grant sitting astride a horse in front of a group of Confederate soldiers captured after a battle is the genuine article.

But all is not as it seems.

Photoshopped? There is something suspicious about this photograph claiming to be of General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War

On closer inspection, the picture is actually a composite of three images, only one of which contains General Grant.

The ‘extravagantly fictitious fusion’ – confusingly labeled ‘General Grant at City Point – was actually doctored decades after the end of the Civil War.

The background photograph does show captured Confederate prisoners, but at the battle of Fisher’s Hill, Virginia, in 1864.

The General was based at City Point for much of 1864 and 1865 during the Siege of Petersburg – and may have even been there when the original picture was taken at an entirely different location.

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