Lady Washington's Reception 1861 Size:24x18 the gunboats arrayed in a

the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory

36672a captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

19th Century — a quiet interior of the general's working sanctum

11th of April 1862

his likeness drawn in the measured line reserved for men who believed the Union could be argued into permanence

Lady Washington's Reception 1861 Size:24x18 the gunboats arrayed in aLady Washington's Reception 1861 a parlor scene of powdered wigs and silk brocade summoned up in the opening year of the war, this lithograph crowds the founding generation into one impossible drawing room, as if the Republic could be steadied by gathering its ghosts. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the