The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole where the Midwest learned to

where the Midwest learned to introduce itself by mail

The image carries the careful dignity of a man who would rather be Chief Justice than President

hushed window before Leverrier's mathematics dragged the eighth planet from the dark

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole where the Midwest learned toThe Defenders of Our Union 19th Century assembles the Federal command in commemorative portraiture Lincoln at the center of his generals, the Republic's preservers rendered in the reverent grammar of a nation cataloging the men who held it together while it bled. 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