Battle of Port Hudson 1887 oklahoma postcard the kind of moment that

the kind of moment that played out a thousand times a day at the foot of Manhattan when the harbor still smelled of coal smoke and the promise of a new name

a war counted in men confined

and the slow procession of wealth that once defined uptown Manhattan

A campaign portrait of the prairie lawyer on the eve of his improbable election — issued by the young Republican coalition as the Union itself began to fray

Battle of Port Hudson 1887 oklahoma postcard the kind of moment thatBattle of Port Hudson 1887 a retrospective rendering of the Mississippi siege engraved more than two decades after the guns fell silent, when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic