DESCRIPTION:
Subject: General Grant's Log Cabin, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA
Condition: Excellent (See scans)
Back side: Divided
Circulated: Yes
Year: 1948
Publisher: The Central News Co.
Postmark: April 8, 1948, Philadelphia, PA
"From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Aug. 4
We have now in our midst, and which will be an ornament to Fairmount Park for many years to come, no less a relic of Gen. GRANT than the identical building, or log cabin, erected expressly for his headquarters at City Point, Va., during the memorable investment of Richmond and Petersburgh. This cabin will, as long as it can be kept together, be an object of great historical interest to Americans, and every visitor to the city will be desirous of viewing it Within its walls Gen. GRANT did his thinking, and the brillant military movements which saved the life of the nation were mainly concocted and perfected there.
The fortunate possessor of cabin is GEORGE H. STUART, Esq., it having been ceded to that gentleman by a special order from Gen. TERRY. It was shipped from City Point to this city by Mr. STUART, and is now being placed in a conspicuous position in the park, exactly as it was erected at City Point The logs, planks and other material were all numbered when it was taken down, and the cabin is being rebuilt with strict reference to these numbers.
The cabin is of the stockade pattern, the logs being inserted
perpendicularly in the ground. There are two rooms; the front room,
which was used as a sitting or reception room, is fourteen feet
square, and the back room, which constituted the General's sleeping
apartment, is twenty-five by nine feet in extent. The entire
building is shaped like the letter T. It is built of Virginia pine
logs, two hundred in number."
(Attribution: http://www.nytimes.com/1865/08/08/news/gen-grant-s-log-cabin.html)
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