Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art published at a moment when

published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance

A documentary engraving of the surrender that gave Grant his unconditional terms and his nickname

paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks

when a younger republic was busy canonizing its founders in ink and bookplate as it argued over what their union was now for

The Democrat known as the Model Senator

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 deep sky art published at a moment whenMemorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892. A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox, when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance, casting defeated soldiers as martyrs in the South's gathering myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National