Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map an engraving from the age

an engraving from the age when an astronomer's hand still trembled between equation and prayer

Portraits and Autograph Signatures of the Framers and Signers of the Declaration of Independence

his jaw set with the same gravity that thundered through Senate chambers on questions of Union

The lithograph belongs to that quieter chapter of remembrance

and nodal crossings plotted with the grave precision of a Victorian selenographer convinced the heavens turned on hidden gears

Grand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861-1866 1885 old S America map an engraving from the ageGrand Army of the Republic Veteran 1861 1866 1885 a commemorative portrait of fraternity in faded blue, the bracketed war years stamped beside an 1885 reunion date, when aging Union men gathered under G. A. R. banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical