Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print the war still hardening into

the war still hardening into its long shape

gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory

four years of blood and ledger reduced to Grant's terms scratched out in pencil and Lee's quiet assent

a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning

Grand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge Exploria_Print the war still hardening intoGrand Bird's Eye View of the Great East River Suspension Bridge a chromolithograph rendering of Roebling's cabled colossus, surveyed from above as if the engraver himself had been hoisted into the harbor air to witness Manhattan and Brooklyn finally stitched together in iron and stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,