Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Chicago gift idea freshly inked into law that

freshly inked into law that same year

General John Alexander Logan 1874 — the Illinois volunteer turned senator rendered in the sober dignity of a postwar portrait

North Dakota Fargo rises from the Red River Valley flatlands as the prairie's unlikely metropolis — a grain-belt crossroads where linen postcards traded views of Broadway's bustle

found quiet comfort in the small theaters of arrival and departure — a porch

Times Square humming under hand-tinted neon

Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Chicago gift idea freshly inked into law thatLieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century a portrait of the Union's quietest thunderbolt, rendered in the rank he held when Lincoln finally found the general who would not retreat. The lithograph carries the stillness of a man who fought with ledgers and cigars as much as with cannon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,