Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 Just Arrived — a tableau

Just Arrived — a tableau heavy with steamer trunks and salt-stiff coats

George Washington 19th Century

and literary men gathered beneath the Society's roof

11th of April 1862

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph rendering of Hampton Roads on that smoke-choked March morning in 1862

Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 Just Arrived — a tableauJefferson Davis and Family the Confederate president rendered not in martial pose but in the domestic frame, surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing. A portrait that softens the architect of secession into a father, as if the household could absolve the cause. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,