Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed diagram print 1847 — a campaign lithograph

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the swaggering grammar of Manifest Destiny

when more than thirty thousand Union prisoners were packed inside its log walls under a Georgia sun that kept no ledger of the dying

Sand Island Light Station Blueprint the Keepers Vigil reads like a draftsman's quiet meditation on isolation — a brick tower rising 132 feet from a shoal in Mobile Bay

Civic Center domes

The engraver renders gravity as gospel

Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed diagram print 1847 — a campaign lithographMajor Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 the officer who held Charleston Harbor through thirty four hours of bombardment, rendered here in the early ink of a war just beginning. His likeness was printed for a Union public hungry for a face to fix the opening shot upon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and