Battle of Tugela River Near Chieveley Camp, 19th Century vintage smoking lady The artist places McClellan astride

The artist places McClellan astride his horse as if composure alone could answer the twenty-three thousand casualties strewn across Sharpsburg's cornfields

caught in the fevered hours of a solar maximum

in McClellan's own dispatch

bracketed by the years that bore Antietam

Battle of Tugela River Near Chieveley Camp, 19th Century vintage smoking lady The artist places McClellan astrideBattle of Tugela River Near Chieveley Camp, 19th Century a documentary engraving of the Boer War's bitter river crossings, where British columns staged from Chieveley pressed against entrenched riflemen on the Tugela's far bank, and the relief of Ladysmith was measured in yards and casualties. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical