Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes
his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor
a late portrait of the Union's hardest rider rendered in the elegiac register of a republic still cataloging its survivors
A mourning print from the long aftermath
Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863
Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma Patrick's rising in Gothic ambitionJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,