Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map and nodal crossings plotted with

and nodal crossings plotted with the grave precision of a Victorian selenographer convinced the heavens turned on hidden gears

Robert Montgomery Bird 19th Century — a portrait of the Philadelphia physician-turned-playwright whose Jacksonian-era dramas and frontier novels gave the antebellum stage its taste for blood

her torch-bearing arm already touring American expositions while the rest of her waited in a Parisian workshop for a pedestal the young republic had not yet built

Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Winfield Scott

Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map and nodal crossings plotted withGrand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861 1866 1885 a commemorative portrait of fraternity in faded blue, the bracketed war years stamped beside an 1885 reunion date, when aging Union men gathered under G. A. R. banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical