Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendered with the soft formality

rendered with the soft formality reserved for senatorial wives whose drawing rooms doubled as the antechambers of antebellum power

The Great Explosion in New York

this lithograph honors the AME bishop and Ohio legislator among a pantheon of Black leaders — a portrait drawn in the sober register of a generation insisting

and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendered with the soft formalityMajor General Henry W. Halleck, General in Chief of the Armies of the U. S., July 1862 a wartime portrait of "Old Brains" at the precise moment Lincoln summoned him from the Western Theater to Washington, the bookish strategist suddenly handed the whole bleeding Union map. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the