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but the date does the haunting

Sages and Statesmen of the 19th Century — a composite engraving in the parlor tradition

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

A campaign portrait of the Bluegrass abolitionist at his most combative — the slaveholding South's apostate son rendered as Liberty's standard-bearer in the year his True American press in Lexington was dismantled by his own neighbors

the Union's reluctant prophet staring past the viewer toward a country still tearing itself open

Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame but the date does theBattle of New Berne NC 1885 a commemorative rendering issued two decades after the guns fell silent, returning to Burnside's 1862 coastal campaign with the careful retrospection of a generation now building monuments to what it once survived. The North Carolina shoreline appears here as memory rather than maneuver. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,