Fall of Petersburg 1865 huge map of America Horace Greeley 1865 — the

Horace Greeley 1865 — the Tribune editor caught at the war's exhausted close

Farwell's First Sunday School Class

Seward at the President's elbow as the document changed what the country was fighting for

James Buchanan

The faces are Union

Fall of Petersburg 1865 huge map of America Horace Greeley 1865 — theFall of Petersburg 1865 a documentary engraving of the siege's final hour, when ten months of trenches, mines, and attrition collapsed at last and Lee's army slipped west toward Appomattox. The image carries the exhausted gravity of a war ending not in glory but in arithmetic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the