Battle of the Wilderness — Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern Size:24x18 and Fourth Street greeting cards

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where prairie meets Rockies and every vista was worth a two-cent stamp

The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise

when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory

Columbia Presenting the Sword of Congress and Crowning Admiral George Dewey the Naval Hero of the Nineteenth Century 1899 — an allegorical chromolithograph in which the Republic herself

Battle of the Wilderness — Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern Size:24x18 and Fourth Street greeting cardsBattle of the Wilderness Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern renders Grant's May 1864 collision with Lee in the Virginia thickets, where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering. 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