Representative From Alabama
freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction
the weight of a republic still inventing its own iconography
The word Late does the heaviest lifting — a single adjective announcing a republic suddenly without its steward
The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle
John Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Representative From AlabamaJohn Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 the Illinois politician turned soldier, photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh, ambition stitched into every button of a uniform he had argued his way into wearing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,