General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over

parachute jumpers caught mid-descent over the Atlantic

his powdered profile rendered with the antiquarian reverence of an age busy curating its colonial ghosts long after the muskets had cooled

of a Union worth its mythology

and real-photo postcards of sod-house homesteads holding their ground against a horizon that refuses to end

General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century bowery wall art parachute jumpers caught mid-descent overGeneral R. E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century General Order No. 9, issued at Appomattox in April 1865, rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture. 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