Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Frame Style:Ebony Frame the republic paused to commemorate

the republic paused to commemorate itself in lithographed laurels and patriotic flourish

the war's first burdened general staring back across the long ledger of blame

Benjamin Franklin

broadsides flashing in tight chromatic registers

and the boardwalk stretching past Palace Amusements

Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Frame Style:Ebony Frame the republic paused to commemorateCamp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW a documentary view of canvas rows pitched in a city park, the down east volunteers under Marshall's command holding the Chesapeake's nervous border while the Republic measured its own loyalty in regiments. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional