Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 Washington_DC_Old The print reads as agrarian

The print reads as agrarian protest dressed in pageant

Secretary of State 1844

1888 — a parlor chromolithograph pitched at the new middle class

where Kentucky riflemen and Baratarian pirates broke a British column two weeks after a peace had already been signed across the Atlantic

Columbia's Noblest Sons 1865 Washington_DC_Old The print reads as agrarianColumbia's Noblest Sons 1865 gathers the Union's martyred and triumphant in a single commemorative tableau, printed in the hush that followed Appomattox a lithograph that reads like a roll call whispered by the republic to itself, half elegy and half exhalation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic