Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond Eureka_canvas and the seven-mile stretch of

and the seven-mile stretch of sand that drew Montrealers down by overnight train

an 1868 lithograph already busy mythologizing him three years into the grief — the log hut

deliberate work of turning soldiers into statuary

the Republic taking inventory of itself a century after the Declaration

sugarhouses steaming in March thaw

Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond Eureka_canvas and the seven-mile stretch ofGrant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond assembles the Union high command as a single iconographic chorus the men who pressed the long, bloody arc from the Wilderness to Appomattox, rendered with the hagiographic confidence of a print made for parlors that had survived the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National