Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA rendering the everyday hardness of

rendering the everyday hardness of homestead and trail with the unsentimental eye of a witness who knew the West was a ledger

Various Flags Carried by the Confederate Armies catalogs the shifting heraldry of secession — Stars and Bars

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

The Porcineograph 1876 — William Emerson Baker's centennial absurdity

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA rendering the everyday hardness ofDeath of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing, fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty. The secession banner is still in his hand, the war scarcely a month old. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of