Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame their faces arranged with the

their faces arranged with the reverence of a denominational family tree drawn in the long quiet after the war

Independence Day here is less celebration than reckoning

with Alcyone at their center

and the long arithmetic of casualty lists

and the briny shimmer of the lake itself

Bird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame their faces arranged with theBird's Eye View of Sixth Street Wharf, Washington DC, 1863 a documentary engraving of the Potomac quay at the height of the war, rendered when the wharf was less a port than an artery, pumping troops and quartermaster's freight into a capital bracing itself against the Confederacy across the river. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional