Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 ny city wall art Grant in Uniform 1898 —

Grant in Uniform 1898 — a posthumous likeness of the general-president in his familiar dark blues

State of Pennsylvania — a quiet pilgrimage rendered in line and shadow

an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets

a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent

John Catron

Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 ny city wall art Grant in Uniform 1898 —Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 a chromolithograph rendered nearly a quarter century after the slaughter, when the Overland Campaign had cooled into civic memory and the killing fields of Hanover County could finally be redrawn as something the republic was willing to look at. 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