New York Coney Island arrives in a salt-bright clatter of Steeplechase horses
where the Republic announced its arrival as a cultural power by housing palms beneath a dome wider than any built before it
the language of freedom set in type while the war that would enforce it still smoldered across half a continent
racing throat cancer to finish the manuscript Twain would publish — the soldier who took Vicksburg and Appomattox now waging a final campaign in ink
rifles stacked and heads bared in the brief Sabbath between skirmishes
Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 New York Coney Island arrivesFortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 renders the strange double life of the Virginia tidewater that summer a fashionable seaside resort pressed cheek to jowl with the Union stronghold from which Butler would soon declare escaped slaves contraband of war. 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