Battle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee Frame Style:Bourbon Frame but the politics behind it

but the politics behind it were pure cider-barrel theater

and the rhetoric of the common man set the Republic on its uneasy course toward the Panic that would close the ledger

The Pacholder Cigarette Form Patent — a Ritual of Smoke and Industry is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 — the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency

the ink still warm with the work of remembrance after a war that nearly unmade the experiment

Battle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee Frame Style:Bourbon Frame but the politics behind itBattle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee a documentary lithograph fixing the moment a Union commander fell from his horse outside the besieged city, the smoke of Sherman's campaign still rising behind him. The composition treats McPherson's death as the war wanted to be remembered: deliberate, mounted, and unflinching. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical