The Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 Citi_Field_Print New Jersey Asbury Park arrives

New Jersey Asbury Park arrives with the salt-bleached glamour of the Jersey Shore in full swing — linen postcards of the Convention Hall

weathered character that suits the document's age

hometown displays

or a cigarette deserved an apparatus designed and patented for its proper handling

The Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 Citi_Field_Print New Jersey Asbury Park arrivesThe Volunteers in Defence of the Government Against Usurpation 1861 a recruiting broadside cast in the harsh moral grammar of that first war year, when secession was named usurpation and every farm boy who answered the call was inscribed into the ledger of a republic suddenly arguing with itself in rifle fire. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,