Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 drafted by Eighth District engineers

drafted by Eighth District engineers who knew the Gulf would one day try to take it back

and protocol drawn with the quiet precision of a republic learning

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

a curl of sand bent into the Atlantic where lighthouses keep their long vigils and weathered shingles silver in the wind

hometown displays

Ulysses S. Grant 1877 Size:24x36 drafted by Eighth District engineersUlysses S. Grant 1877 the general turned president rendered in the twilight of his second term, a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic. The lithograph holds him as the country preferred to remember him: stoic, uncomplicated, the soldier still visible beneath the statesman. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,