Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the Cherokee marched west

and the Cherokee marched west under the long shadow of a presidency that remade the office in its own iron likeness

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

when aging Union men gathered under G

the same sober face hardened by the long arithmetic of the years between

1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Grant's men swept up the Tennessee escarpment

Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame and the Cherokee marched westBattle of Williamsburgh 1862 renders McClellan's first serious clash up the Peninsula a muddy, rear guard tangle outside the old colonial capital, where Hooker and Longstreet traded volleys among the redoubts and the road to Richmond first revealed how dearly it would be paid for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and