Object Details
- Description
- Physical Description
- Wood with a canvas seat.
- Specific History
- This camp chair was used by Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. After the war, Grant gave the camp chair to his former aid-de-camp George Goodsell of the 17th Michigan Infantry Regiment.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- user
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- date made
- pre 1865
- associated dates
- 1861-1865
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- wool (seat material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 14 cm x 46.5 cm x 60.5 cm; 5 1/2 in x 18 5/16 in x 23 13/16 in
- overall: 30 1/2 in x 16 in x 16 1/2 in; 77.47 cm x 40.64 cm x 41.91 cm
- Object Name
- chair
- Other Terms
- chair; Equipment, Individual; Army
