Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th 1862 Size:24x18 when the Republic seemed to

when the Republic seemed to bury its veterans and its hopes in alternating procession — the year's grief rendered in funereal lithography

A memorial broadside that compresses a presidency into two dates — the Kentucky cabin and the Petersen House across from Ford's Theatre — and insists

The schematic charts the caisson pier

its lantern room perched eighty-nine feet above the surge

A campaign portrait of the Alabama senator yoked to Franklin Pierce on a ticket that bet the Union on compromise — King would win the office and die before he could meaningfully hold it

Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th 1862 Size:24x18 when the Republic seemed toBattle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, March 8th 1862 renders the second day in the Ozarks where Curtis's Federals broke Van Dorn's mixed army of Confederates and Cherokee allies a lithograph of cannon smoke and shattered timber, drawn for a Northern public hungry to see the West won in ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,