The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC The Underground Passage at City

The Underground Passage at City Hall — a subterranean tableau from the IRT's earliest years

and the original notations are preserved in the print

reached back for the founder's likeness as both compass and alibi

when secession was named usurpation and every farm boy who answered the call was inscribed into the ledger of a republic suddenly arguing with itself in rifle-fire

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

The Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 canvas_Washington_DC The Underground Passage at CityThe Leader and His Battles: Ulysses S. Grant, Lieutenant General USA, 1866 a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox, cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood, three stars on his shoulder, as the Republic's quiet inheritor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National