Battle of Five Forks, Charge of General Sheridan, April 1st 1865 (1886) framed solar system Republican Candidate for the President

Republican Candidate for the President of the United States — the Pathfinder rendered as standard-bearer

Kansas Wichita rises from the Arkansas River bend where cattle drives once met the rails — a Cowtown turned Air Capital

when the republic counted its assassinations and found

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

Battle of Five Forks, Charge of General Sheridan, April 1st 1865 (1886) framed solar system Republican Candidate for the PresidentBattle of Five Forks, Charge of General Sheridan, April 1st 1865 (1886). Printed two decades after the saber stroke that cracked Lee's right flank and made Appomattox inevitable, this commemorative lithograph renders Sheridan's charge in the heroic key of a republic still sorting its dead into legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional