General Grant 1885 Orlando_City_Print before Sumter

before Sumter

as if the Florida sun itself had soaked into the ink

shorthand for an America newly inclined to project its power across oceans

and a façade that once housed Caruso

and the lantern-room geometry of a station that took ten years and several lives to raise

General Grant 1885 Orlando_City_Print before SumterGeneral Grant 1885 a likeness rendered in the final year of the old commander's life, when he was racing his own mortality to finish the memoirs that would outlive him. The portrait carries the weariness of a soldier turned statesman turned author, the war two decades behind him and the pen still moving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional