Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Horace Greeley — a pastoral

Horace Greeley — a pastoral lithograph of the Tribune editor's rural retreat

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 — a Centennial-era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch

and anyone who keeps a leather case in a desk drawer

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau

in McClellan's own dispatch

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Horace Greeley — a pastoralDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical