Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 Thirty-four hours of mortar fire

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

almost familiar

rifles stacked and heads bared in the brief Sabbath between skirmishes

the Gilded Age's bossism and graft drawn out as a literal worm coiling through the republic's gut — satire with the diagnostic confidence of a medical engraving

New York Coney Island arrives in a salt-bright clatter of Steeplechase horses

Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 Thirty-four hours of mortar fireFortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 renders the strange double life of the Virginia tidewater that summer a fashionable seaside resort pressed cheek to jowl with the Union stronghold from which Butler would soon declare escaped slaves contraband of war. 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