General Franz Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 8th 1862 Key_West_print Union Soldiers at Point Lookout

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863

and true enough

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

and industrial captains share the same gilt borders as if all had labored at the same drafting table

General Franz Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 8th 1862 Key_West_print Union Soldiers at Point LookoutGeneral Franz Sigel at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 8th 1862 a battlefield lithograph rendering the German born Union commander on the second day of the Ozark fight, where Sigel's artillery helped break Van Dorn's army and hold Missouri for the Union. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic