Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Vintage_Oakland_Map their faces arranged in the

their faces arranged in the careful hierarchy of a lost cause still being mythologized in ink

and naval engagements as they happened

where the weight of Antietam and Gettysburg seems already inscribed

with Alcyone at their center

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Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Vintage_Oakland_Map their faces arranged in theLieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quietest thunderbolt, rendered in the rank he held when Lincoln finally found the general who would not retreat. The lithograph carries the stillness of a man who fought with ledgers and cigars as much as with cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,