Charging the Guns 1891 Spaniel_poster 1864 — a wartime view

1864 — a wartime view of the convalescent hospital wards that ringed the capital

Henry Clay Jr

White House

the founding grievance rendered with the dramatic certainty only a century of hindsight can lend

19th Century — an ecclesiastical portrait of the evangelical bishop who carried Low Church conviction from West Point's chapel to the Ohio frontier

Charging the Guns 1891 Spaniel_poster 1864 — a wartime viewCharging the Guns 1891 a late century military scene rendered in the muscular vocabulary of post war remembrance, when the Republic's artists were still working out how to draw smoke and valor without the ghost of Antietam in the frame. 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 (Currier & Ives,