Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Grant 1865 — a portrait

Grant 1865 — a portrait of the Union's hard hand of war in the year it finally closed at Appomattox

splintered timber

and this lithograph gathers the colleagues around him with the hushed theatricality reserved for a republic losing one of its last living links to the Founding

charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling

rendered in the brisk martial shorthand of the Mexican War

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Grant 1865 — a portraitCapture of Fort Fisher 1865 a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea. The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment, drawn with the certainty of a war finally turning toward its end. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional