George Washington 1863 music_canvas Andrew Pickens Butler

Andrew Pickens Butler

issued in the long shadow of the war that nearly unmade it — the dates bracketing a century in which the promises of Philadelphia were tested

its looping prisoners traced in the spidery ink of an ephemeris

the Heroes of Palo Alto

and survivals

George Washington 1863 music_canvas Andrew Pickens ButlerGeorge Washington 1863. A wartime engraving of the first president, summoned back into circulation as the Union bled through its third year the founder's likeness pressed into service as moral ballast, reminding a fracturing republic whose hand had first held it together. 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