Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) stettheimer copy this commemorative portrait belongs to

this commemorative portrait belongs to the Lost Cause's long second act — Lee rendered not as defeated general but as marble saint

rendered with the solemn ornament that lodge culture demanded of its patriarchs

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not waited for

when a battered republic returned to the architect of its credit looking for ballast

Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) stettheimer copy this commemorative portrait belongs toEvacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883). A centennial print summoning the morning the last redcoats withdrew from Manhattan and Washington rode down through a city finally his own remembrance rendered a hundred years on, when the Republic had grown old enough to mythologize its own beginning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,