Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame His Life in Pictures —

His Life in Pictures — a memorial volume frontispiece bending grief into hagiography

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

and the Pacific breaking white along Santa Monica's pier

The likeness carries the careful gravity of a soldier still answering for a battle the army would never quite forgive him for

Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame His Life in Pictures —Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M. B. Walker on the Friday Evening a battlefield lithograph that catches the brigade mid momentum, Walker's line surging through the failing light of a Friday that someone, somewhere, would remember for the rest of his life. 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