Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap It is an orrery flattened

It is an orrery flattened onto paper

fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary

Grant 1865 — a portrait of the Union's hard hand of war in the year it finally closed at Appomattox

deliberate work of canonizing its wartime executives in lithographed remembrance

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap It is an orrery flattenedCapture of Fort Fisher 1865 a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea. The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment, drawn with the certainty of a war finally turning toward its end. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional