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

printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it

Major General Zachary Taylor 1847 catches Old Rough and Ready at the height of his Mexican War celebrity

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