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A portrait of the Carolina senator whose defense of slavery on the Senate floor drew Charles Sumner's scalding rebuke — and Preston Brooks's cane in answer

rendered in the sober line-work of a century that preferred its founders edited into marble

Fall of Petersburg 1865 alaska wall art Grant 19th Century — aFall of Petersburg 1865 a documentary engraving of the siege's final hour, when ten months of trenches, mines, and attrition collapsed at last and Lee's army slipped west toward Appomattox. The image carries the exhausted gravity of a war ending not in glory but in arithmetic. 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