Great Battle of Murfreesboro Tenn Jan 2nd 1863 Between the Union Forces Under Size:24x18 when the sobriquet was still

when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone-still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless

The scene renders smoke

its allegory ripening in a year when Lincoln and Douglas were still arguing the future of the Union from Illinois platforms

Washington at the Outposts of Valley Forge 1859 — a mid-century lithograph reaching back across eighty winters to find the General among his sentries

Lincoln's executive order rendered as a commemorative engraving the year after it took force — language that turned a war for union into a war for freedom

Great Battle of Murfreesboro Tenn Jan 2nd 1863 Between the Union Forces Under Size:24x18 when the sobriquet was stillGreat Battle of Murfreesboro Tenn Jan 2nd 1863 Between the Union Forces Under a documentary lithograph of the second day at Stones River, where Rosecrans held the line against Bragg in the cedar brakes of middle Tennessee. The print arranges blood and powder into legible geometry, the way the era insisted its slaughter be remembered. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the