General Grant 1885 framed amelia their elliptical chains drawn taut

their elliptical chains drawn taut against the firmament

the camera fixing what the army would otherwise have lost to legend

rendered when he was Secretary of State and the country was busy swallowing the spoils of the Mexican War

the New Jersey senator whose pious reputation earned him the nickname 'the Christian statesman' in a contest that would end in defeat to Polk and the annexationist tide

Taft 19th Century — a portrait of the future president as a younger man

General Grant 1885 framed amelia their elliptical chains drawn tautGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the final year of the old commander's life, when he was racing his own mortality to finish the memoirs that would outlive him. The portrait carries the weariness of a soldier turned statesman turned author, the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional