Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Grant — a documentary engraving

Grant — a documentary engraving of the April morning the Confederacy laid down its arms in a parlor in Virginia

the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between

McClellan ringed by his officers in the field where caution and ambition would tangle into a month-long siege — the Young Napoleon posing for posterity before the guns even spoke

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Grant's men swept up the Tennessee escarpment

Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Grant — a documentary engravingBattle of Williamsburgh 1862 renders McClellan's first serious clash up the Peninsula a muddy, rear guard tangle outside the old colonial capital, where Hooker and Longstreet traded volleys among the redoubts and the road to Richmond first revealed how dearly it would be paid for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and