Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american the Hero of Fort Sumter

the Hero of Fort Sumter

and a quarry the century had nearly erased

Thomas Hart Benton Senator From Missouri 1837

National Republican Candidate for Sixteenth President of the United States

It is the firmament rendered as both cathedral and calculation

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american the Hero of Fort SumterBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional