Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american his Mexican War laurels burnished

his Mexican War laurels burnished into the iconography of a Union already cracking beneath the rhetoric of compromise

the Hero of Fort Sumter

Issued the year after Guiteau's bullet ended his brief tenure

rendering the chaos of those three November days into orderly ridgelines and disciplined regimental colors

Our Heroes and Our Flags 1895 gathers the Union's commanding officers beneath the regimental colors they carried through the war

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 vintage american his Mexican War laurels burnishedBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional