the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight
rendered in the third year of the war when its sabers and stalls had become both heirloom and instrument
Every gilded balustrade and velvet-draped tier reads as a sermon to the silent-screen era — devotion rendered in plasterwork
1901 — a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents
his abolitionist candidacy quietly siphoning votes from Henry Clay and tilting the White House toward Polk
Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed blueprint the gaze of a manMajor Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 the officer who held Charleston Harbor through thirty four hours of bombardment, rendered here in the early ink of a war just beginning. His likeness was printed for a Union public hungry for a face to fix the opening shot upon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and