General Benjamin Harrison "Come on Boys!" Battle of Resaca May 13th to 16th 1864, 1888 huge map of Canada side streets pooling into dusk

side streets pooling into dusk

rendered with the brassy confidence of Gilded Age electioneering — the Plumed Knight and his general yoked together for a contest Grover Cleveland would narrowly steal away

its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice

when the empire he once attended in Vienna had already dissolved into the unwelcome new geography of postwar Europe

and the bureaucratic confidence of a republic settling into its second century

General Benjamin Harrison "Come on Boys!" Battle of Resaca May 13th to 16th 1864, 1888 huge map of Canada side streets pooling into duskGeneral Benjamin Harrison "Come on Boys!" Battle of Resaca May 13th to 16th 1864, 1888 a commemorative lithograph that resurrects Harrison the brigade commander a quarter century after the Georgia hills bled, conveniently issued as the Indianapolis lawyer mounted his march on the White House. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical