Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau

A photographic record of Union bivouac along the rail junction that fed Washington its troops and supplies — canvas rows pitched in the first uncertain summer of the war

Horace Greeley — a pastoral lithograph of the Tribune editor's rural retreat

in McClellan's own dispatch

Daniel Boone Protects His Family 1874 — a Centennial-era engraving rendering the Kentucky woodsman as armed patriarch

Diagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney vintage alaska map Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathersDiagram of the Federal Government and American Union by N. Mendal Shafer, Attorney a draftsman lawyer's attempt to render the Republic legible, its branches and powers diagrammed like the schematic of a machine that had just survived being torn apart and was now being explained back to itself. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical