General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 as the tallest thing humankind

as the tallest thing humankind had ever bolted to the sky

and the long Wasatch ridges sketched by hands that knew how silence photographs

when the great voice of the Senate had spent itself defending the Compromise of 1850 and the Union it could not

From the Plantation to the Senate 1883 traces an arc no antebellum cartographer could have charted — a Reconstruction-era print honoring the improbable distance between the cotton row and the chamber floor

photographed in the year he would seize Cumberland Gap for the Union before the long

General Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs 1885 Size:24x36 as the tallest thing humankindGeneral Grant in His Library Writing His Memoirs, 1885. A study of the dying general at his desk, racing throat cancer to finish the manuscript Twain would publish the soldier who took Vicksburg and Appomattox now waging a final campaign in ink, securing his family's fortune one sentence at a time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional