Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the swagger of a

and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach

Empire wore a velvet coat that season

what its own founding sentences meant

the granite shoulders of El Capitan rendered by postcard artists who understood that the valley humbles the hand that draws it

Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap and the swagger of aBattle of Antietam 1887 a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter century after the bloodiest single day on American soil, when memory had cooled enough to permit the cornfield and Burnside's Bridge to be redrawn as scripture rather than slaughter. 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 lithographic publishers