Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame where Federal troops posed against

where Federal troops posed against the long Tennessee horizon in the autumn the war turned

Arkansas Little Rock rises from the south bank of the Arkansas River

Bridalveil Fall in misted bloom

issued a hundred years after Philadelphia's audacity

when aviation and Manhattan's vertical ambition seemed cut from the same alloy

Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame where Federal troops posed againstSamuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century the Union general who held Pea Ridge and pushed the war into the trans Mississippi, rendered in the sober portraiture reserved for officers whose victories were measured in muddy Arkansas miles rather than Eastern headlines. 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