This plaster pendant (one of four) represents Grant's birth. The pendants were designed by John Massey Rhind.

The pendants were built by the Klee Brothers Company, using plaster and Keen Cement.

In New York City, he made the Astor entrance doors for Trinity Church, the allegorical figures at Grant's Tomb, the statue of General Alexander Stewart Webb on the campus of City College, and the doughboy relief for the Twenty-Third Regiment Armory on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.

When Rhind's 'Erskine Memorial Fountain' was installed in Atlanta in 1896, it was considered one of the city's most important landmarks. He made a sculpture of Crawford W. Long (who discovered ether as an anesthesia) for the National Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol Building. Also in Washington, DC, at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street, is his 'Monument of the Grand Army of the Republic.' (It was dedicated by the first U.S. veteran's group on April 9, 1866, one year after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House.)

Rhind designed the statue of Peter Stuyvesant in Jersey City, NJ. His 'Colleoni' bronze statue (modeled after the sculpture of the soldier of fortune by Verocchio in Venice, Italy) is in Clifton Park in Newark. Robber baron George Jay Gould commissioned Rhind to design an 'Apollo Fountain,' which Gould gave to his wife as a birthday gift in 1902. (Gould's 155-acre estate is now the campus of Georgian Court University.) The fountain consists of a bronze figure of Apollo riding in a chariot made of a nautilus shell and a large octopus; the chariot is pulled by marble seahorses and Apollo is accompanied by a mermaid riding alongside.

In Pennsylvania, Rhind sculpted statues of 'Tedyuscung' the 18th century Susquehanna Delaware Indian chief and spokesman (Chestnut Hill); 'Stephen Girard,' a 19th-century philanthropist; 'John Wanamaker,' the department store owner; and 'Major General Abner Doubleday,' the Civil War commander (Gettysburg, PA). For Niles, Ohio, he made the McKinley Memorial.

Rhind kept a studio in Gramercy Park in New York for many years. He had returned to England to live, when he died.

For his next engagement, Grant fought and won the key city on the Mississippi — Vicksburg. His victory cut the Confederacy in two. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down General Robert E. Lee's Army. On April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out generous terms of surrender that would prevent treason trials.

As President, Grant brought part of his Army staff to the White House. Grant was honest, but his administration was corrupt. There were federal patronage scandals in New York's Customs House. His brother-in-law was involved with speculators Jay Gould and James Fisk, who attempted to corner the gold market. Grant's administration had a reputation for criminality. Grant drank heavily, as always.

In his 1872 reelection campaign, Grant was attacked by liberal Republican reformers. He called them 'narrow-headed men,' their eyes so close together that 'they can look out of the same gimlet hole without winking.' Grant's friends in the Republican Party came to be known as 'the Old Guard.' Grant allowed the bitterly resented Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the South. He backed it up with military force when necessary. It was a disorganized mess.

He achieved success when he established Yellowstone National Park. In retirement, Grant invested in a Wall Street financial firm, run in part run by his son, which went famously and scandalously bankrupt. Grant was financially wiped out. Desperate for money, he wrote his memoirs, which earned his family the then astronomical sum of $450,000, but he died of cancer just days after finishing them. His tomb is a national monument in New York City.