Liberty Enlightening the World
a barrier-island resort where the Atlantic gnaws the dunes and the boardwalk hums above the tideline
where a routed Union army turned at the sound of one general's horse and pressed Early's Confederates into the smoke of the Shenandoah's last great reckoning
carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale
half elegy and half exhalation
Col. John C. Fremont, Republican Candidate for the President of the United States Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Liberty Enlightening the WorldCol. John C. Fremont, Republican Candidate for the President of the United States the Pathfinder rendered as standard bearer, his 1856 campaign portrait carrying the new party's first presidential gamble against the slave power, all explorer's bearing and free soil conviction. 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