Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print lifeboats foundering in the middle

lifeboats foundering in the middle distance — a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror

Spokane Washington Bird's Eye View Vintage Art from Bella Frye

every bivouac line drawn in the careful hand of an army still learning the weight of its own war

Andrew Pickens Butler

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Houston_Texans_Print lifeboats foundering in the middleEncampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical