Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the General laid out among

the General laid out among grieving kin while the young nation rehearsed

had been worn into a kind of national topography by grief

The lithograph trades the ledger of recruits for something more intimate: a household photographed against the backdrop of a country still tearing itself apart

its dome and pediments rendered with the civic seriousness of a young capital announcing that frontier timber towns could

Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the General laid out amongCastle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century the converted tobacco warehouse on Cary Street where the Confederacy held its political prisoners, deserters, and accused spies. The image carries the grim civic weight of a building that became a byword for wartime detention in the rebel capital. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,