Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration A campaign portrait of the

A campaign portrait of the grandson and son of presidents

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the marbled ascent the public took to look down upon their legislators

Dewey's squadron rendered in the confident line of an empire announcing itself in a foreign harbor — a documentary engraving of the May morning when the Spanish fleet went down and the American century stepped

Issued in the year of the World's Columbian Exposition

Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration A campaign portrait of theBattle of Spotsylvania Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864. Eleven days of mud, musketry, and entrenchment rendered in cartographic ink the Overland Campaign's grinding ledger, where Grant refused to recoil and the woods of Virginia absorbed casualties faster than the dispatches could name them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National