Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding framed earth print Aug 3rd 1891 — a

Aug 3rd 1891 — a press rendering of the cruiser USS Baltimore returning John Ericsson's remains to Sweden

John Alexander McClernand

its three days reframed as the war's hinge in the long work of national remembrance

his likeness rendered with the formal dignity owed a man who would hold the War Department for scarcely six months before Tyler's ascendancy unraveled it all

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding framed earth print Aug 3rd 1891 — aBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,