Our Country's Heroes 1899 rustic wall decor A portrait of the Pennsylvania

A portrait of the Pennsylvania firebrand caught mid-career

printed in the bitter season of a contested election that would end with Reconstruction itself bargained away on the floor of Congress

and cattle towns where the Main Street is mostly sky

into the opening blow of the campaign that would unlock Tennessee

Our Country's Heroes 1899 rustic wall decor A portrait of the PennsylvaniaOur Country's Heroes 1899 a commemorative chromolithograph assembled in the flush of victory, its martial portraits arranged like medals on a tunic as the republic counted up the admirals and generals who had hauled it, smoke stained and grinning, into the company of empires. 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