Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art The Plumed Knight of Maine

The Plumed Knight of Maine rendered in campaign-portrait gravitas

Ford Field Original Artwork from Bella Frye

when Ned Hanlan's stroke could empty a city and Toronto Bay glittered with the wagers of two nations watching their oarsmen as carefully as their generals

the engraving renders that peculiar hush of generals deciding where men will fall by morning

a lithographer's roll call printed in the war's second year — when McClellan still loomed largest and the names beside him had not yet been sorted by victory or disgrace

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art The Plumed Knight of MaineHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,