Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map and nodal crossings plotted with

and nodal crossings plotted with the grave precision of a Victorian selenographer convinced the heavens turned on hidden gears

lesser hands

a document that reads like a man clearing his throat before handing the bully pulpit to Taft

The Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the first nine men to hold the office in a single composite portrait — Washington through Tyler

The lithograph belongs to that quieter chapter of remembrance

Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map and nodal crossings plotted withGrand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861 1866 1885 a commemorative portrait of fraternity in faded blue, the bracketed war years stamped beside an 1885 reunion date, when aging Union men gathered under G. A. R. banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical