In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Erected 1877 — a granite

Erected 1877 — a granite shaft raised on the Common a dozen years after Appomattox

One Country One Flag Grand Army of the Republic 1889 — a veterans' commemorative issued nearly a quarter-century after Appomattox

a lantern lit against the dusk

an engraving steeped in the audacity of a republic that had just refused

In Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Erected 1877 — a graniteIn Commemoration of the Glorious Victories of the 3rd and 9th of April 1865 a commemorative print marking the fall of Richmond and Lee's surrender at Appomattox, the two April mornings that closed the ledger on four years of national bloodletting. The engraver's laurel is fresh, the ink still triumphant, before the country had time to learn what peace would cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive