Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 WA framed map its movable keeper's dwelling and

its movable keeper's dwelling and stacked range optics drawn with the precision of a man who knew this light had to be re-aimed as the channel wandered

A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

where draped catafalque and silent crowds rendered in careful line work bear witness to a republic still bleeding from Ford's Theatre nineteen days prior

sponge docks

where prairie meets Rockies and every vista was worth a two-cent stamp

Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 WA framed map its movable keeper's dwelling andStonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 a martial portrait fixed barely a month after Manassas, when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional