Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor the republic forcibly enlarging itself

the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline

Hannibal Hamlin Republican Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1860

printing the party's planks alongside the soldier-president's likeness in the uneasy summer when Liberal Republicans had bolted and Reconstruction's promises were already fraying at the edges

drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink

Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor the republic forcibly enlarging itselfMajor General Henry W. Halleck, General in Chief of the Armies of the U. S., July 1862 a wartime portrait of "Old Brains" at the precise moment Lincoln summoned him from the Western Theater to Washington, the bookish strategist suddenly handed the whole bleeding Union map. 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