Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) stettheimer copy rendered in the sober portraiture

rendered in the sober portraiture reserved for officers whose victories were measured in muddy Arkansas miles rather than Eastern headlines

this commemorative portrait belongs to the Lost Cause's long second act — Lee rendered not as defeated general but as marble saint

Grant — the general who accepted Lee's sword at Appomattox

rendered with the solemn ornament that lodge culture demanded of its patriarchs

Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883) stettheimer copy rendered in the sober portraitureEvacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783 (1883). A centennial print summoning the morning the last redcoats withdrew from Manhattan and Washington rode down through a city finally his own remembrance rendered a hundred years on, when the Republic had grown old enough to mythologize its own beginning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,