Major General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 Size:18x24 line by line

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The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

gathering the great faces of a hundred years into one tableau where Webster might lock eyes with Lincoln and Clay shares his margin with Grant

when engravers of the 1800s reworked his likeness into civic scripture — the jaw set

A documentary engraving of Winfield Scott's mountain assault on Santa Anna's fortified pass

Major General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 Size:18x24 line by lineMajor General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 a battlefield lithograph of the Union's most cautious commander on the bloodiest single day the republic would ever record. The artist places McClellan astride his horse as if composure alone could answer the twenty three thousand casualties strewn across Sharpsburg's cornfields. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the