Colonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861 Key_West_Old_Map The Ritual of the Blade

The Ritual of the Blade Schick Patent No

The postcard artists worked overtime here

A documentary engraving of Jeb Stuart's audacious 150-mile circuit around the Army of the Potomac — a cavalry impertinence rendered in lines that still carry the dust of Virginia roads and the embarrassment of a Union command caught flat-footed

asking the iron face of the Union to bless a second

was being drafted in the same ink

Colonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861 Key_West_Old_Map The Ritual of the BladeColonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861. A border state commander rendered in the early ink of the war, when Missouri's loyalty was a knife's edge and Blair's regiment was the Union's wager that St. Louis would not slip south. 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