American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting Soldier Field Original Design from

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

Grant 1872 — a campaign broadside for the general's reelection

rendered in the formal hand of a period portrait engraving that fixes the brigadier in the careful posture command demanded of him

The Flame Keepers Blueprint — Patent Archive of the Pocket Lighter captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

photographed in the year he would seize Cumberland Gap for the Union before the long

American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting Soldier Field Original Design fromAmerican Statesmen 1861 a gallery of the men who carried the Union into its hardest year, rendered in the engraver's solemn line. Their faces, arranged like a jury of intentions, belong to a republic still arguing with itself in cannon fire and committee rooms. 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