Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard the year of Gettysburg and

the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation

The Barbers Contraption — Patent for Human Grooming 1871 is a small monument to the morning ritual — the kind of drawing that hung in apprentice manuals when barbering was a guild and a calling

The People of These United States Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congresses and Courts

and the unshakable human desire to soar

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard the year of Gettysburg andUnion Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga, where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned. The image carries the stillness of men between battles, the river below them already a Union artery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional