Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 Frame Style:Ebony Frame a broadside that reads like

a broadside that reads like a sermon to a republic deciding whether self-government would survive its own bloodletting

the republic remembered as a single crowded room

Alabama Mobile arrives draped in Spanish moss and Gulf humidity — a port city where azaleas riot along Government Street and shrimp boats nose into Mobile Bay

Sand Island Light Station Blueprint 8th District Engineering Drawings — the brick conical tower rising alone from a vanishing Alabama shoal at the mouth of Mobile Bay

rendered when he was Secretary of State and the country was busy swallowing the spoils of the Mexican War

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 Frame Style:Ebony Frame a broadside that reads likeBombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861. Thirty four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor, drawn while the cannon was still warm and the country had not yet learned the word it was becoming. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional