Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General, 1865 Raleigh_Skyline with linen views of the

with linen views of the falls

when a colonial assembly dared to write conscience into law and a young republic

the assassination cast not as politics but as the devil's own commission

basement bars

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General, 1865 Raleigh_Skyline with linen views of theAmbrose Everett Burnside, Major General, 1865. The Rhode Islander whose whiskers outlived his command at Fredericksburg, rendered here in the brass and braid formality of a war's final year a portrait of a man the Union both promoted and forgave. 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