Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american his Mexican War laurels burnished

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

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elevated from the Senate chamber the year Polk's war closed and the slavery question began its slow scald through Pennsylvania's anthracite politics

and a quarry the century had nearly erased

The draftsman's lines trace not just a structure but a descent

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american his Mexican War laurels burnishedBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional