Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where pontoons inched across cold

where pontoons inched across cold water and Burnside's men took a town house by house before the slaughter at Marye's Heights still to come

the year of Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation

Washington as a Mason 1867 renders the first president in full Masonic regalia — apron

Lincoln and Hamlin 1860

Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where pontoons inched across coldCamp Meigs 1861 a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war, when Readville's drill grounds outside Boston filled with raw volunteers learning the geometry of the line. The image carries that early war tension: tents in orderly rows, men still convinced the whole business would be brief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional