John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map where the long shadow of

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

the regimental colors arranged with the staged bravado of a republic discovering it could project force across two oceans at once

of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg

Sept 17th 1862 — a battlefield lithograph of the Union's most cautious commander on the bloodiest single day the republic would ever record

A piece worth giving

John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map where the long shadow ofJohn Charles Frmont 1861 the Pathfinder rendered in his second act, no longer the explorer of western passes but the Union general whose Missouri emancipation order ran ahead of Lincoln's caution and cost him his command. 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 publishers (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,