The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC City of New Orleans Vintage

City of New Orleans Vintage Art from Bella Frye

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

the soldier still visible beneath the statesman

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

reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC City of New Orleans VintageThe 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