Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century framed earth print when the nation hurried to

when the nation hurried to enshrine the men whose wires had stitched its severed halves back into legible distance

its tall conical shaft and lantern-room geometry inked with the precision of engineers who knew the 8th District's hurricanes would test every course of masonry they specified

Garfield on the East Portico

Lincoln and Garfield

A campaign portrait of the Indiana senator and grandson of Tippecanoe

Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century framed earth print when the nation hurried toElmer Ephraim Ellsworth 19th Century the boyish Zouave colonel whose death at Alexandria, hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House, made him the Union's first martyr and turned a recruiting officer's portrait into a relic of grief. 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