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It is the Victorian astronomer's quiet confession: that every map of the earth is

and Fourth Street greeting cards bright with the bustle of a bourbon town

summoned back into circulation as the Union bled through its third year — the founder's likeness pressed into service as moral ballast

when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory

Battle of the Wilderness — Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern Size:24x18 It is the Victorian astronomer'sBattle of the Wilderness Desperate Fight on the Orange Plank Road Near Todd's Tavern renders Grant's May 1864 collision with Lee in the Virginia thickets, where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the