Kearsarge and Alabama 1887 Framed_Indy_Colts when soldiering was still half

when soldiering was still half pageantry and the ledger of casualties had barely opened

Douglas Stanton Hospitals Washington DC 1864 — a documentary view of the wartime capital's converted wards

Buffalo Hunt in the Wild West 1897 arrives at the elegiac end of the slaughter

The draftsman's hand lingers on every brace and cross-strut

Kearsarge and Alabama 1887 Framed_Indy_Colts when soldiering was still halfKearsarge and Alabama 1887 revisits the Channel duel off Cherbourg more than two decades after the fact a commemorative print rendered in the long shadow of the war, when the Union sloop's victory over the Confederate raider had hardened from naval dispatch into national memory. 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