The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC An astronomical lithograph for the

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

when the Confederacy's chief soldier became a college president and a marble idea forming itself in real time

the soldier still visible beneath the statesman

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC An astronomical lithograph for theThe Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox, cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood, three stars on his shoulder, as the Republic's quiet inheritor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National