Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 racing throat cancer to finish

racing throat cancer to finish the manuscript Twain would publish — the soldier who took Vicksburg and Appomattox now waging a final campaign in ink

Thirty-four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink — the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor

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Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 Size:24x18 racing throat cancer to finishFortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort and Hygeia Hotel, Va. 1861 renders the strange double life of the Virginia tidewater that summer a fashionable seaside resort pressed cheek to jowl with the Union stronghold from which Butler would soon declare escaped slaves contraband of war. 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