Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the surrender that gave Grant his unconditional terms and his nickname

issued in the long shadow after the war

lesser hands

Battle of Cedar Creek 1864 — a documentary engraving of Sheridan's October ride down the Valley Pike

distant orbs adrift at the cold edge of the solar family

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art A documentary engraving of theMemorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892. A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox, when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance, casting defeated soldiers as martyrs in the South's gathering myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National