Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed blueprint issued in the year a

issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months — the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read

rendered in the third year of the war when its sabers and stalls had become both heirloom and instrument

1901 — a commemorative grouping of the three martyred presidents

the protectionist's protectionist

the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight

Major Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 framed blueprint issued in the year aMajor Robert Anderson, the Hero of Fort Sumter, 1861 the officer who held Charleston Harbor through thirty four hours of bombardment, rendered here in the early ink of a war just beginning. His likeness was printed for a Union public hungry for a face to fix the opening shot upon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and