Daily Almanac for Sunday, July 25, 2021

On this date in 1866, U.S. Grant was promoted to the rank of General of the Army. The first American officer to be so designated. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States, portrait by Mathew Brady, 1870–1880. By Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Public Domain, https commons.wikimedia.org

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