General Winfield Scott 1861 Victoria_BC_Print lesser hands

lesser hands

rendered in the gaunt geometry of a man who had read too many casualty lists

and linen views of Gatlinburg cabins tucked into rhododendron

his likeness summoned again as a republic mobilizing for Europe reached back to the man who had once held it together

Texas Dallas arrives in lithographed views of cotton exchanges and Elm Street streetcars

General Winfield Scott 1861 Victoria_BC_Print lesser handsGeneral Winfield Scott 1861 the aging hero of two earlier wars rendered at the threshold of a third, his Anaconda Plan already drawn in the margins of a country splitting open. The portrait carries the weight of a soldier who had outlived his century and was being asked, once more, to save the Union. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional