Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 framed lighting drawn in the hush between

drawn in the hush between ambition and second thought

every joint a quiet argument with the surf off Cohasset

issued in 1896 when Gilded Age America had grown rich enough to mythologize the immigrant clerk who built its credit

John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 — a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 framed lighting drawn in the hush betweenBombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861. Thirty four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor, drawn while the cannon was still warm and the country had not yet learned the word it was becoming. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional