Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Definition_Art saguaros throwing long shadows across

saguaros throwing long shadows across the Sonoran

drawn while the powder smoke still clung to the Sierra Madre — Manifest Destiny rendered in bayonets and flagstaffs

and the smaller regional houses that documented every Main Street

recalling the volley fired into War of 1812 captives still held on English granite weeks after the peace had already been signed at Ghent

Ulysses S. Grant, 19th Century Definition_Art saguaros throwing long shadows acrossUlysses S. Grant, 19th Century. A portrait of the general who became president, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men who had seen Shiloh and the Wilderness the quiet weight of a soldier asked to govern the country he had only just finished holding together. 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