Farmington, Mississippi, May 1862 grit_definition_gift Burning of the Ocean Monarch

Burning of the Ocean Monarch in the English Channel 1848 - Vintage Maritime Print — a lithograph that renders catastrophe with terrible elegance

four hundred years after Columbus

Susan Boardman Goodwin Dewey at Home — the hero of Manila Bay photographed in the domestic register

the gold-domed Capitol presiding over a railroad town rebuilt from ash

Farmington, Mississippi, May 1862 grit_definition_gift Burning of the Ocean MonarchFarmington, Mississippi, May 1862 a field document from the long shadow of Shiloh, when Halleck's cautious advance toward Corinth turned the Mississippi backcountry into a slow ledger of skirmish and entrenchment, every bivouac line drawn in the careful hand of an army still learning the weight of its own war. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,