Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if the engraver were

as if the engraver were charting not the heavens but the failures of those who dared to read them

or statement gallery wall

his clubfoot and lacerating wit equally legendary in the House chamber where he hammered out emancipation and

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

when the Empire State's wards were already rehearsing the quarrels over immigration and loyalty that would define the coming decade

Stonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if the engraver wereStonewall Jackson at Bull Run, August 17, 1861 a martial portrait fixed barely a month after Manassas, when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional