Battle of Fort Donelson — Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and His Army, February 1862 vintage moon art where Grant refused to recoil

where Grant refused to recoil and the woods of Virginia absorbed casualties faster than the dispatches could name them

19th Century A documentary engraving of the Kentucky bluffs where Starkweather's gunners held the Union flank on October 8

New York Niagara Falls — postcards drawn to the thunder of the Horseshoe and the mist rising off the gorge

19th Century gathers the founders beneath the square and compass — Washington

Battle of Fort Donelson — Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and His Army, February 1862 vintage moon art where Grant refused to recoilBattle of Fort Donelson Capture of Generals S. B. Buckner and His Army, February 1862. A documentary engraving of the surrender that gave Grant his unconditional terms and his nickname, rendered in the smoke and bayonet idiom of the early war, when the Cumberland still ran cold past the Confederate works. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional