Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the broad symmetry of Temple

the broad symmetry of Temple Square

where musket smoke tangled with burning underbrush and the wounded cried from a forest that would not stop smoldering

Empire wore a velvet coat that season

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

Battle of Antietam 1887 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap the broad symmetry of TempleBattle of Antietam 1887 a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter century after the bloodiest single day on American soil, when memory had cooled enough to permit the cornfield and Burnside's Bridge to be redrawn as scripture rather than slaughter. 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