Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 and the kind of host

and the kind of host who has opinions about ice

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

and the slow arithmetic of a Union held together by ink

the Gilded Age's bossism and graft drawn out as a literal worm coiling through the republic's gut — satire with the diagnostic confidence of a medical engraving

Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 and the kind of hostFortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 renders the strange double life of the Virginia tidewater that summer a fashionable seaside resort pressed cheek to jowl with the Union stronghold from which Butler would soon declare escaped slaves contraband of war. 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