Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 deep sky art when the city's masons were

when the city's masons were still translating grief into civic stone and the dead into allegorical figures

glorious decade when American clippers raced the Horn for Liverpool wool and bragging rights

Major General George B

11th of April 1862

a wash was run

Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 deep sky art when the city's masons wereBelger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 a wartime view of the Union encampment perched on the city's northern edge, where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was garrisoned in tent rows and quartermaster's ledgers. The image carries the documentary stillness of a border city held in place by federal bayonets. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical