Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor West Virginia — a postcard

West Virginia — a postcard collection cut from coal seams and Allegheny hollows

when the country

archival pigment inks

The Military and Historical Portrait Group

Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor West Virginia — a postcardMajor General Henry W. Halleck, General in Chief of the Armies of the U. S., July 1862 a wartime portrait of "Old Brains" at the precise moment Lincoln summoned him from the Western Theater to Washington, the bookish strategist suddenly handed the whole bleeding Union map. 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