Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861 — Federal Gen. McDowell, Confederate Gen. Beauregard Size:36x24 Five years before the log-cabin-and-hard-cider

Five years before the log-cabin-and-hard-cider campaign that would carry him to the White House for a single month

The Sunken Chamber Baltimore Caisson Engineering Blueprint charts the strange architecture of a lighthouse built from the seabed up — a pneumatic iron cylinder sunk into Chesapeake mud

catalogued in the last year the Union still needed such a chart

A 20th-century rendering of Hamilton's Harlem country seat — the federalist's retreat from pamphlet wars and Treasury ledgers

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Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861 — Federal Gen. McDowell, Confederate Gen. Beauregard Size:36x24 Five years before the log-cabin-and-hard-ciderBattle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861 Federal Gen. McDowell, Confederate Gen. Beauregard a documentary engraving of the war's first great clash along a Virginia creek, where picnicking spectators learned what McDowell's green regiments learned under Beauregard's guns: that this would not be a summer's quarrel. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional