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Non-free media information and use rationale true for List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients
Description	Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Authorized by Congress December 17, 1863, presented to Grant date unknown.
Source	http://www.civilwar.si.edu/soldiering_usgrant_medal.html For Smithsonian permissions, see http://www.si.edu/Termsofuse
Article	List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients
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Purpose of use	To illustrate the actual medal
Replaceable?	Only available image of original medal
Other information	Medal itself is a work of the federal government and not subject to copyright. Image by the Smithsonian Institution, and may or may not be in the public domain.
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current	10:13, 21 July 2017		317 × 313 (20 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	20:26, 15 September 2015	No thumbnail	450 × 445 (29 KB)	Nyctc7 (talk \| contribs)	{{Non-free use rationale \|Article =List of Congressional Gold Medal Recipients \|Description = Congressional Gold Medal awarded to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Authorized by Congress December 17, 1863, presented to Grant date unkno...

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List of Congressional Gold Medal recipients