Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 sacramento_print Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon Commanding

Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon Commanding United States Army in Missouri 1861

The Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the republic's first ten executives into a single engraved gallery

The drawing reads like a quiet argument in stone: that a young nation could shoulder the Atlantic if it built tall enough

and Sierra-bound rail yards collided

Mendal Shafer

Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 sacramento_print Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon CommandingCamp Douglas, Chicago, Ill. 1864 a documentary view of the Union's vast prison stockade on the lakefront, where Confederate captives wintered behind plank walls and rumor of conspiracy. The image carries the cold ledger weight of 1864: barracks in rows, sentries at their posts, a war counted in men confined. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional