Brigadier General Franz Sigel, US Army, 1861 Old_Map_Boston when the colonies were a

when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely

1847 — an 1847 commemorative engraving that fixes the printer-statesman between his two cities

1894 — a commemorative portrait of the Livingstone College founder and orator

reminding a fracturing republic whose hand had first held it together

The Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 — a recruiting broadside cast in the harsh moral grammar of that first war year

Brigadier General Franz Sigel, US Army, 1861 Old_Map_Boston when the colonies were aBrigadier General Franz Sigel, US Army, 1861 a portrait of the German born commander whose name alone could rally regiments of immigrant volunteers to the Union cause. Rendered in the early months of the war, when shoulder straps were still fresh and the ledgers of recruits ran heavy with foreign tongues. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional