Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration was being drafted in the

was being drafted in the same ink

Lansing — 19th Century

the language of freedom set in type while the war that would enforce it still smoldered across half a continent

when annexation

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the marbled ascent the public took to look down upon their legislators

Battle of Spotsylvania — Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864 framed declaration was being drafted in theBattle of Spotsylvania Engagements at Laurel Hill and Ny River, Va., May 8 to 18, 1864. Eleven days of mud, musketry, and entrenchment rendered in cartographic ink the Overland Campaign's grinding ledger, where Grant refused to recoil and the woods of Virginia absorbed casualties faster than the dispatches could name them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National