Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the

fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty

A commemorative engraving of the morning the British sails finally fell below the horizon and Washington rode down the Bowery into a city held captive for seven years — the Revolution's last

Died October 6 1892 — a memorial portrait bracketing the Laureate's eighty-three years between two engraved dates

The draftsman gave equal weight to every tread and rivet

in the smoldering aftermath of the war

Independence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 framed atomizer fixing Elmer Ellsworth at theIndependence Declared 1776, The Union Must Be Preserved 1839 yokes the founding clarion to a Jacksonian era vow, the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty three years one announcing a republic, the other warning what it would cost to keep it whole as the slavery question began its slow boil toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,