General U.S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and even the simplest tool

and even the simplest tool was worth a draftsman's afternoon

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

The engraving carries the smoke of that Sunday in April

and the slow blue haze that settles over the highlands at dusk

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

General U.S. Grant 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and even the simplest toolGeneral U. S. Grant 1865 a portrait of the Union's hard hand of war in the year it finally closed at Appomattox, the lieutenant general rendered with the quiet exhaustion of a man who had spent four years feeding ledgers of recruits into the meatgrinder and came out the other side with a country still standing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,