Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift Sept 17 1862

Sept 17 1862

where Union and Confederate lines collided in the wooded ridges above the Oostanaula — the country tearing itself toward Atlanta

We print it at archival quality so the detail holds — every signature legible

Death of Washington

every gunboat plume etched with the urgency of dispatch

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift Sept 17 1862Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical