Camp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard 19th Century Framed_Giants Joseph Eggleston Johnston

Joseph Eggleston Johnston

and adobe missions baking under a turquoise sky

and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes

George Dewey 1899 — the Hero of Manila Bay rendered the year after his squadron's guns silenced the Spanish fleet

Citizens Volunteer Hospital

Camp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard 19th Century Framed_Giants Joseph Eggleston JohnstonCamp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard, 19th Century. A documentary photograph of citizen soldiers at bivouac canvas tents in orderly rows, the Light Guard posed with the stiff dignity of a militia that took its drill seriously, half pageant and half preparedness in the long quiet after Appomattox. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,