Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor when every brewmaster had a

when every brewmaster had a patent attorney on retainer and a draftsman down the hall

and the patchwork farmland where Norwegian and German settlers raised their courthouses and creameries

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

five years early

and the cabinet's stranger drawers

Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor when every brewmaster had aBelger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 a wartime view of the Union encampment perched on the city's northern edge, where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was garrisoned in tent rows and quartermaster's ledgers. The image carries the documentary stillness of a border city held in place by federal bayonets. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical