The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole Spirit of the Union 1861

Spirit of the Union 1861

observatories

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

hushed window before Leverrier's mathematics dragged the eighth planet from the dark

The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole Spirit of the Union 1861The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century assembles the Federal command in commemorative portraiture Lincoln at the center of his generals, the Republic's preservers rendered in the reverent grammar of a nation cataloging the men who held it together while it bled. 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