The Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap an engraving from the age

an engraving from the age when an astronomer's hand still trembled between equation and prayer

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the marbled ascent the public took to look down upon their legislators

like the Confederacy itself

and men of letters into a single engraved pantheon — a Victorian act of remembrance that arranges the republic's faces in tidy rows

rendered in the sober lithographic style befitting a man who preferred ink to oratory and influence to applause

The Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap an engraving from the ageThe Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 a recruiting broadside cast in the harsh moral grammar of that first war year, when secession was named usurpation and every farm boy who answered the call was inscribed into the ledger of a republic suddenly arguing with itself in rifle fire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,