Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his likeness rendered with the

his likeness rendered with the formal dignity owed a man who would hold the War Department for scarcely six months before Tyler's ascendancy unraveled it all

where pontoons inched across cold water and Burnside's men took a town house by house before the slaughter at Marye's Heights still to come

the year of Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation

Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president — one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union

Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap his likeness rendered with theCamp Meigs 1861 a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war, when Readville's drill grounds outside Boston filled with raw volunteers learning the geometry of the line. The image carries that early war tension: tents in orderly rows, men still convinced the whole business would be brief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional