John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century Old_Washington_Map golden palette and elegant line

golden palette and elegant line work—perfect for a reading nook

his rank rendered in the language of the only ally that mattered — issued in the year his name became a sentence the British Admiralty could not finish

immortalizing the apocryphal order to Bragg's artillery that would carry Taylor straight into the White House

and harbor views where Lady Liberty greets every ship as if she'd been waiting all morning

devoted stars that orbit one another across unfathomable distance

John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century Old_Washington_Map golden palette and elegant lineJohn Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, 19th Century a portrait of the Union admiral whose name lived twice over: once on the bottle shaped guns that armed the federal navy, and again on the deck of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers (Currier