Heroes of the War 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendered with the ceremonial gravity

rendered with the ceremonial gravity the Gilded Age reserved for its rituals — a republic still binding its post-war wounds

a powder-mill town turned du Pont stronghold whose postcards trade in red-brick rowhouses

and a façade that once housed Caruso

Erected 1877 — a granite shaft raised on the Common a dozen years after Appomattox

Heroes of the War 1891 Frame Style:Ebony Frame rendered with the ceremonial gravityHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,