Hooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 constitution signing The lithograph carries the polished

The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office

rendered here as a Victorian cosmography where the firmament is given an axis and God

the kind of personal record that surfaces from a republic still cataloguing its returned soldiers and reckoning with the unwelcome maturity the war had pressed upon it

her white hull and tall stacks the very silhouette of an American Navy newly convinced of its reach

Hooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 constitution signing The lithograph carries the polishedHooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 the third day's catastrophe rendered in ink, when Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac unraveled in the Virginia thickets and Jackson's flanking ghost still hung over the field. A scene drawn in the smoke of a Union undoing. 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