Life of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 huge map of Pacific the General rendered not as

the General rendered not as commander but as guardian of his wife's grandchildren — the household tableau by which a young republic learned to picture its founder

the postwar republic ordering its bloodied geography into something a parlor wall could hold

Explosion of the Peacemaker on the USS Princeton - Vintage Maritime Print — a lithograph that freezes the catastrophic February of 1844

Springfield

Battle of Franklin November 30 1864 Union Gen Schofield Conf Gen Hood 1891 — a late commemorative rendering of Hood's catastrophic frontal assault against Schofield's entrenched Federals in the Tennessee dusk

Life of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 huge map of Pacific the General rendered not asLife of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 a mid century lithograph reaching backward seventy years to enshrine the General in martial bearing, published when an anxious republic, already fracturing over slavery and expansion, looked to its first soldier as a unifying memory it could no longer entirely keep. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,