William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 gift_for_programmer where Astors and Vanderbilts traded

where Astors and Vanderbilts traded Fifth Avenue's brownstone heat for sea air and starched linen

These postcards trade in linen skies

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

posed beside Julia and the children as the country measured its scarred reconstruction against the steady

retouched for a Gilded Age audience

William Tecumseh Sherman 1877 gift_for_programmer where Astors and Vanderbilts tradedWilliam Tecumseh Sherman 1877 a portrait of the general a dozen years after Atlanta, his face hardened into the iconography of a republic still reckoning with what total war had cost it. The likeness carries the weight of a man who outlived his own legend and refused to soften it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and