Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the bound book open between

the bound book open between them — a quiet domestic moment caught inside the years the country was tearing itself toward something

Whether taken before Appomattox or after

1910 — a signed presidential portrait inscribed in the easy hand of the Republic's heaviest executive

a chromolithograph published thirty years on — when the work of remembrance had hardened into pageantry and the generals' faces had begun to belong to schoolrooms more than to battlefields

From American Bondage to the Halls of Congress 1897 — a commemorative lithograph charting the arc from the auction block to the Capitol's marble corridors

Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame the bound book open betweenJoseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851 1857 a portrait of the Floridian planter who carried his territory's voice to Washington and its militia colors into the Seminole campaigns, rendered with the stiff dignity reserved for men holding a frontier in trust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,