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General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown

1838 catches the future president mid-ascent

where the Federal rout along Bull Run dispelled any lingering illusion of a ninety-day quarrel

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 USA framed map The parlor here is aJourney of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 a narrative lithograph tracing the arc from cotton row to Union blue, drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink. 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 lithographic publishers