Major General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 Size:18x24 A documentary engraving of Winfield

A documentary engraving of Winfield Scott's mountain assault on Santa Anna's fortified pass

when engravers of the 1800s reworked his likeness into civic scripture — the jaw set

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Major General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 Size:18x24 A documentary engraving of WinfieldMajor General George B. McClellan at the Battle of Antietam, MD, Sept 17th 1862 a battlefield lithograph of the Union's most cautious commander on the bloodiest single day the republic would ever record. The artist places McClellan astride his horse as if composure alone could answer the twenty three thousand casualties strewn across Sharpsburg's cornfields. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the