Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard and a lantern room sized

and a lantern room sized for the modest reach of a sixth-order Fresnel

the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation

The commemorative plate reads as ledger and echo

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paused to render its officeholders in the sober dignity of lithographed ranks

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 connecticut postcard and a lantern room sizedUnion Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863 a documentary photograph from the heights above Chattanooga, where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned. The image carries the stillness of men between battles, the river below them already a Union artery. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional