Grant and His Family 1867 framed merchant gift Thaddeus Stevens 1838

Thaddeus Stevens 1838

Walt Whitman 19th Century — a portrait of the bard who walked the army hospitals with notebook in hand

the opening land action of an empire announcing itself in tropical heat

George Washington 1st President of the United States 1846 — a mid-century lithograph that summons the founder back into a republic already arguing over its westward inheritance

Jany 11th 1863 renders McClernand's gunboats wheeling on the Arkansas River in a haze of mortar smoke

Grant and His Family 1867 framed merchant gift Thaddeus Stevens 1838Grant and His Family 1867 a domestic portrait of the Union's victorious general two years after Appomattox and two years before the White House, the soldier rendered as paterfamilias in the quieter register of a country still learning how to live with its own survival. 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