A telegraph was dispatched to announce the arrival of the train carrying President Ulysses S. Grant on the morning of September 15, 1871.  The train would arrive in Kittanning at 12:40 PM.  Some of the Civil War Men from Kittanning who had served under then General Grant at Vicksburg, Mississippi, hastily assembled to greet him at this station. (Smith, Armstrong County History Page 122)

This photo was featured in Vol. 107, No. 2, page 15 of The Banner, in 2002, which is the national publication of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.