Our Generals 1862 pilot saying print Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

A campaign portrait of the prairie lawyer on the eve of his improbable election — issued by the young Republican coalition as the Union itself began to fray

two years before the guns of August would force it to grow up

McKinley at the helm and Hobart at his shoulder as the country eased toward an empire it had not yet named

Our Generals 1862 pilot saying print Andrew JacksonOur Generals 1862 assembles the Union's command in composite portraiture, a lithographer's roll call printed in the war's second year when McClellan still loomed largest and the names beside him had not yet been sorted by victory or disgrace. 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 lithographic publishers (Currier &