Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor the republic forcibly enlarging itself

the republic forcibly enlarging itself across a foreign skyline

sail lofts

their faces fixed in the composed stillness of men already passed into doctrine

when the country

Major General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Armies of the U.S., July 1862 Gift_for_Sailor the republic forcibly enlarging itselfMajor General Henry W. Halleck, General in Chief of the Armies of the U. S., July 1862 a wartime portrait of "Old Brains" at the precise moment Lincoln summoned him from the Western Theater to Washington, the bookish strategist suddenly handed the whole bleeding Union map. 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