Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 ny city wall art where the South commissioned its

where the South commissioned its martyrs in ink and sold them back to itself as devotion

printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it

an ecclesiastical genealogy issued in the year Brigham Young's Utah was still negotiating its place inside a federal republic uneasy with its prophets

the republic looking backward to steady itself

Battle of Cold Harbor 1888 ny city wall art where the South commissioned itsBattle of Cold Harbor 1888 a chromolithograph rendered nearly a quarter century after the slaughter, when the Overland Campaign had cooled into civic memory and the killing fields of Hanover County could finally be redrawn as something the republic was willing to look at. 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