A documentary engraving of Jeb Stuart's audacious 150-mile circuit around the Army of the Potomac — a cavalry impertinence rendered in lines that still carry the dust of Virginia roads and the embarrassment of a Union command caught flat-footed
when fire swept the cotton-laden decks and pitched 139 souls into the icy Sound
civic grammar of a republic still counting its losses and learning what remembrance was supposed to look like
Camp of the Massachusetts Second Company Light Artillery at Stewart's Place
an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets
Battle of Cerro Gordo, April 18th 1847 old Ontario print A documentary engraving of JebBattle of Cerro Gordo, April 18th 1847 a documentary engraving of Scott's mountain assault on Santa Anna's batteries, rendered with the swaggering certainty of a republic convinced its road to Mexico City was also the road to its destiny. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives,