Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor printing the party's planks alongside

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

archival pigment inks

their faces fixed in the composed stillness of men already passed into doctrine

West Virginia — a postcard collection cut from coal seams and Allegheny hollows

the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline

Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor printing the party's planks alongsideMajor 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