Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 Size:18x24 Mississippi Biloxi rises from the

Mississippi Biloxi rises from the Gulf in linen postcards heavy with shrimp luggers

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

his face already bearing the ledger-weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

Bridalveil Fall in misted bloom

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 Size:18x24 Mississippi Biloxi rises from theCommander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 assembles the surviving Union officers nearly three decades on, their portraits ringed in the fraternal regalia of the GAR a veterans' lithograph that reads less like a roster than a civic liturgy, the war remembered by the men who outlived it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional