George Washington 19 Huge_Sailboat when Porter was still a

when Porter was still a young officer in a fleet learning to project American power across Mexican coastlines and Caribbean waters

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

A mourning print from the long aftermath

and Loyalty as the creed of men who had survived the war and now drilled

George Washington 19 Huge_Sailboat when Porter was still aGeorge Washington 19 one in a long lineage of engraved likenesses of the General turned President, his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon, struck and re struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth. 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 &