General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Raid Around McClellan, June 1862 Jacksonville_canvas the camera fixing what the

the camera fixing what the army would otherwise have lost to legend

The Cape Blanco Light Station Blueprint Guardian of the Oregon Coast reads as a draftsman's reckoning with the westernmost edge of the continent — a brick conical tower drawn to withstand the gales that batter that basalt headland

and Loyalty as the creed of men who had survived the war and now drilled

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

gathering the martyred president among the uniformed architects of Union victory — an exercise in remembrance staged for a country still translating its grief into iconography

General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Raid Around McClellan, June 1862 Jacksonville_canvas the camera fixing what theGeneral James Ewell Brown Stuart's Raid Around McClellan, June 1862. A documentary engraving of Jeb Stuart's audacious 150 mile circuit around the Army of the Potomac a cavalry impertinence rendered in lines that still carry the dust of Virginia roads and the embarrassment of a Union command caught flat footed. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,