General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown, VA, April 1862 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 000-year-old obelisk in its improbable

000-year-old obelisk in its improbable Central Park exile

1844 — a campaign-era portrait of Polk's running mate

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 — a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South

the lithograph belongs to that strange Reconstruction industry of Confederate memory

General Twiggs at the Storming of the Fortress of Chapultepec 1847 renders Scott's final push toward Mexico City with the bombast of Manifest Destiny in full throat — a battle lithograph in which the castle bristles

General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown, VA, April 1862 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 000-year-old obelisk in its improbableGeneral George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown, VA, April 1862. A press photograph from the opening weeks of the Peninsula Campaign, McClellan ringed by his officers in the field where caution and ambition would tangle into a month long siege the Young Napoleon posing for posterity before the guns even spoke. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National