Colonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861 Key_West_Old_Map Palisades vistas

Palisades vistas

asking the iron face of the Union to bless a second

The Recall Companion to the Flag of Truce 1897 reads as a procedural footnote to parley — the small printed manual that told signal officers how to summon a banner back from the field

and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint

the long face and hollowed eyes already carrying the ledger of Antietam

Colonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861 Key_West_Old_Map Palisades vistasColonel Frank P. Blair, First Regiment Missouri Volunteers, 1861. A border state commander rendered in the early ink of the war, when Missouri's loyalty was a knife's edge and Blair's regiment was the Union's wager that St. Louis would not slip south. 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