Charging the Guns 1891 Gift_Idea_Barber The scene reads like a

The scene reads like a quiet argument between sanctuary and capital

cherry blossoms crowding the Tidal Basin in pink drifts

For Vice President Edward Everett

dating itself to the year a president was shot in a Washington train station and the long postwar arithmetic of remembrance was still being tallied

Charging the Guns 1891 Gift_Idea_Barber The scene reads like aCharging the Guns 1891 a late century military scene rendered in the muscular vocabulary of post war remembrance, when the Republic's artists were still working out how to draw smoke and valor without the ghost of Antietam in the frame. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier & Ives,