Camp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame dating itself to the year

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

his epaulettes catching the light of a republic newly drunk on blue-water victory and the cabled headlines of an empire announcing itself

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the great commercial artery at its busiest crossing

John Alexander McClernand

Camp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame dating itself to the yearCamp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861. A photographic record of Union bivouac along the rail junction that fed Washington its troops and supplies canvas rows pitched in the first uncertain summer of the war, when soldiering was still half pageantry and the ledger of casualties had barely opened. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional