General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 A Quadricentennial chromolithograph minted for

A Quadricentennial chromolithograph minted for the 400-year jubilee

printed in that brittle season when the Union still pretended compromise might hold and Kansas was already bleeding into the headlines

Abraham Lincoln Assassinated April 14 1865

photographed in the year he would seize Cumberland Gap for the Union before the long

when the great voice of the Senate had spent itself defending the Compromise of 1850 and the Union it could not

General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 A Quadricentennial chromolithograph minted forGeneral Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs, 1885. A study of the dying general at his desk, racing throat cancer to finish the manuscript Twain would publish the soldier who took Vicksburg and Appomattox now waging a final campaign in ink, securing his family's fortune one sentence at a time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional