Partly-printed DS, signed “U. S. Grant,” one page, 13.75 x 16.75, August 28, 1865. Blank membership certificate for the Soldiers Monument Association, neatly signed at the conclusion by Ulysses S. Grant as the association's president. The eye-catching document features several vignettes including Abraham Lincoln surrounded by clouds, rays of light, US flags, and six tattered banners, crowned by an eagle with a scroll in its beak. In fine condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds, one with a small edge separation.
The association is named in honor of Joseph Hamilton Daviess, a Kentucky lawyer, who had volunteered to serve in the Indiana militia in 1811. He was put in command of two companies of dragoons and all the cavalry in Governor William Henry Harrison's army, and was mortally wounded on November 6, 1811, in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
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