Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor five years early

five years early

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Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor five years earlyBelger 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