Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat The Barbers Instrument Patent Tools

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1794 — the founding charter set in type alongside the figure who presided over its drafting

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Battle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 — Union Gen. McClellan Commanding Framed_Sailboat The Barbers Instrument Patent ToolsBattle of Williamsburg, Hancock's Charge, May 5 1862 Union Gen. McClellan Commanding. A documentary engraving of the Peninsula Campaign's muddy reckoning, where Hancock's bayonets came down a Virginia slope and earned him, in McClellan's own dispatch, the adjective that would follow him to Gettysburg: superb. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,