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We are not a nation of swindlers! by Charles Jay Taylor 1896 Oct. 21 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Taylor, Charles Jay | Group of men, with Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Benjamin Harrison in foreground, with William McKinley holding up flag, "The national honor must be upheld!" | |
Me and my partner by Charles Jay Taylor 1889 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Taylor, Charles Jay | Magazine cover showing large man, "monopoly," and small man "grandfathers," writing in book, with papers, "civil service reform," "economical gov't," and "broken promises" in wastepaper basket. | |
Grant from West Point to Appomattox by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1885 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | Ulysses Grant, half-length portrait, facing left; surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865, including artillery crew in the Tower of Chapultepec, Mexico, 1847; drilling Volunteers, 1861; Fort Donelson, 1862; Shiloh, 1862; Siege of Vicksburg, 1863; Chattanooga, 1863; appointment by Lincoln... | |
Battle of Chattanooga by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1880 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Chattanooga Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War. Following the defeat of Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Union Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga in September, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Gen. Braxton Bragg besieged Rosecrans and his men by... | |
Battle of Shiloh by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1888 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing on the west... | |
Battle of Spottsylvania by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1887 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from... | |
Sheridan's final charge at Winchester by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1886 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | ||
Building pontoons by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1887 May 16 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on... | |
Carrying off the ivory by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1888 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain (center) follows his men carrying a large quantity of ivory, in the H. Rider Haggard novel Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888). | |
Sheridan's ride by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1886 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de |
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