Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) Frame Style:Ebony Frame Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

rendered with the quiet reverence reserved for a last surviving Fireside Bard — the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table grown silver

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Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi - Vintage Maritime Print renders that long April siege of 1862 in full chromolithographic thunder — Foote's ironclads and mortar rafts wreathed in cannon smoke as the Confederate stronghold in the river's great horseshoe bend buckles under Union fire

his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party

Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) Frame Style:Ebony Frame Bombardment of Fort SumterPatrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses, May 3 1765 (1852) an 1852 engraving reaching back nearly a century to recover the moment Henry rose against the Stamp Act, his arm cocked mid oration, the burgesses arrayed in the half shock of men hearing treason spoken plainly for the first time. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional