Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map lesser hands

lesser hands

Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence

an engraving from the age when an astronomer's hand still trembled between equation and prayer

rendered with the swagger of a metropolis convinced that steel and ambition could marry two cities into one

his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union

Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map lesser handsGrand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861 1866 1885 a commemorative portrait of fraternity in faded blue, the bracketed war years stamped beside an 1885 reunion date, when aging Union men gathered under G. A. R. banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical