A Council of War, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame These postcards traffic in midnight

These postcards traffic in midnight sun and Mount McKinley's white wall

The image carries the quiet ledger-keeping of a city turned garrison

Representative From Virginia

and IND as a circulatory system beneath the boroughs — every express line and local stop traced like vasculature on an anatomist's plate

his jaw set with the certainty of a man who believed the Republic's future lay past the Mississippi

A Council of War, 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame These postcards traffic in midnightA Council of War, 19th Century officers bent over a field map by lamplight, the engraving renders that peculiar hush of generals deciding where men will fall by morning, the war's grammar conducted in low voices and pencil marks. 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, Kurz &