Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where musket smoke tangled with

where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering

Empire wore a velvet coat that season

and the swagger of a republic newly fond of its own reach

Geographical Historical and Statistical Chart of the United States of America 1835 — a Jacksonian-era reference engraving that flatters the young republic with columns of population figures

Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where musket smoke tangled withBattle of Antietam 1887 a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter century after the bloodiest single day on American soil, when memory had cooled enough to permit the cornfield and Burnside's Bridge to be redrawn as scripture rather than slaughter. 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 publishers