Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond Pittsburgh_Print carriages wheeling past the southwest

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

every awning angled toward the tide

Grant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond Pittsburgh_Print carriages wheeling past the southwestGrant and His Generals: Distinguished Commanders in the Campaign Against Richmond assembles the Union high command as a single iconographic chorus the men who pressed the long, bloody arc from the Wilderness to Appomattox, rendered with the hagiographic confidence of a print made for parlors that had survived the war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National