Civil War photograph - United Nations New York

Gen. George Gordon Meade (at the center, with beard), commander of the Union Army of the Potomac and the victor at the Battle of Gettysburg, with staff officers on the steps of the Wallack house in Culpeper, VA.

Photograph September 1863 by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. 

 

Large Letter Reprint - Wappingers Falls, New York

Nickname: The Empire State

Mottos: Excelsior - Ever upward

The first permanent European settlers were the Dutch, who from 1613 organized a private overseas territory in the vicinity of Manhattan and, after it was settled by the first group of emigrants in 1624, transformed it into a Dutch province called New Netherlands.