Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 poster Fort Worth Burning of the Ocean Monarch

Burning of the Ocean Monarch in the English Channel 1848 - Vintage Maritime Print — a lithograph that renders catastrophe with terrible elegance

America 1671 — a cartographic glance backward to a continent still half-rumor

that Black achievement belonged on the wall beside the republic's other founders

1884 — a composite lithograph assembled nearly two decades after Appomattox

Thomas Corwin

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 poster Fort Worth Burning of the Ocean MonarchEx Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox, gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory. The image carries the particular stillness of men who outlived the war they fought. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,