Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print every bivouac line drawn in

every bivouac line drawn in the careful hand of an army still learning the weight of its own war

Spokane Washington Bird's Eye View Vintage Art from Bella Frye

In Defence of the Union and the Constitution 1861 — a recruiting broadside cast in the high rhetorical register of that first war summer

and entrenchment rendered in cartographic ink — the Overland Campaign's grinding ledger

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print every bivouac line drawn inEncampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical