Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration Dewey's squadron rendered in the

Dewey's squadron rendered in the confident line of an empire announcing itself in a foreign harbor — a documentary engraving of the May morning when the Spanish fleet went down and the American century stepped

where adobe missions and the white arcades of the Hotel San Carlos trade postcard space with desert sunsets the color of struck flint

was being drafted in the same ink

The Presidents of the USA

Lansing — 19th Century

Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration Dewey's squadron rendered in theBattle of Spotsylvania Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864. Eleven days of mud, musketry, and entrenchment rendered in cartographic ink the Overland Campaign's grinding ledger, where Grant refused to recoil and the woods of Virginia absorbed casualties faster than the dispatches could name them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National