Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century Aztec_Stadium_Poster and hung upon a parlor

and hung upon a parlor wall

when the hero of Little Round Top was still fighting — posthumously — to clear his name from the cloud of Five Forks

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The building reads less as architecture here than as argument: a republic insisting

McCulloch (1893) A late-century lithograph rendering of the Missouri bloodletting where Nathaniel Lyon fell and McCulloch's Confederates held the field — the war's first general killed in action

Death Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century Aztec_Stadium_Poster and hung upon a parlorDeath Bed of Rt. Rev. Bishop Timon, 19th Century a mournful tableau of Buffalo's first Catholic bishop in his final hour, drawn in the devotional idiom of the period when American Catholicism was still proving its civic legitimacy. The lithograph reads as both deathbed portrait and quiet argument for sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,