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General George Brinton McClellan and Staff Before Yorktown

and stars by which a soldier knew his corps and a corps knew its dead

and finding the soul outranked by Saturn

side streets pooling into dusk

New York NYC arrives as a skyline in miniature — linen postcards of the Flatiron's prow

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall General George Brinton McClellan andEquality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of