Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA The Porcineograph 1876 — William

The Porcineograph 1876 — William Emerson Baker's centennial absurdity

its courses hewn from Aquia quarries and stacked by hands that still remembered the Revolution

when aging Union men gathered under G

its triple slogan thundering against the expansion of slavery into the territories — a chromolithograph born in the same year Bleeding Kansas turned the abstract argument into rifle fire

side streets pooling into dusk

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA The Porcineograph 1876 — WilliamDeath of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing, fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty. The secession banner is still in his hand, the war scarcely a month old. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of