Camp of the Massachusetts Second Company Light Artillery at Stewart's Place, Baltimore Frame Style:Ebony Frame Each map is set in

Each map is set in a solid wood frame with ornate corners for an elegant touch

John Randolph of Roanoke 1876 — a posthumous engraving of the acid-tongued Virginia orator

Ohio arrives in lithographed views of canal towns and courthouse domes

for the language of marble

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

Camp of the Massachusetts Second Company Light Artillery at Stewart's Place, Baltimore Frame Style:Ebony Frame Each map is set inCamp of the Massachusetts Second Company Light Artillery at Stewart's Place, Baltimore a documentary photograph of New England gunners bivouacked in a border city that wore Union blue uneasily, their tents pitched in the orderly geometry of men learning that war is mostly waiting between thunders. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical