Life of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap plotting raids from the safety

plotting raids from the safety of British North America while the Union bled south of the line

or anyone who appreciates the craft of a well-made drink

the year inked beneath him like a small claim against forgetting

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

Life of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap plotting raids from the safetyLife of George Washington, the Soldier 1854 a mid century lithograph reaching backward seventy years to enshrine the General in martial bearing, published when an anxious republic, already fracturing over slavery and expansion, looked to its first soldier as a unifying memory it could no longer entirely keep. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,