Camp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame John Alexander McClernand

John Alexander McClernand

his epaulettes catching the light of a republic newly drunk on blue-water victory and the cabled headlines of an empire announcing itself

when Guastavino tilework arched overhead like the nave of a buried cathedral and the first downtown trains slid through Heins & LaFarge's vaulted dark

Sixteenth President of the United States

the smoke of Santa Anna's columns still hanging over Manifest Destiny's bloodiest proof

Camp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame John Alexander McClernandCamp Kelsey Near Annapolis Junction, MD, 1861. A photographic record of Union bivouac along the rail junction that fed Washington its troops and supplies canvas rows pitched in the first uncertain summer of the war, when soldiering was still half pageantry and the ledger of casualties had barely opened. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional