Camp Belger Baltimore Md 37th Regiment NYS National Guard Col Charles Roome Eureka_wall_art The plate hums with the

The plate hums with the Gilded Age's appetite for ancestry

The scene hums with the swaggering mercantile din of a city teaching the century how to hurry

Grant in Citizens Clothes 1868 finds the general out of uniform on the eve of his first presidential run

Battle of Antietam 1887 — a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter-century after the bloodiest single day on American soil

A documentary photograph of citizen-soldiers at bivouac — canvas tents in orderly rows

Camp Belger Baltimore Md 37th Regiment NYS National Guard Col Charles Roome Eureka_wall_art The plate hums with theCamp Belger Baltimore Md 37th Regiment NYS National Guard Col Charles Roome a documentary view of New York volunteers bivouacked on Maryland soil under Colonel Roome, the kind of encampment ledger image that fixed a regiment's brief tenancy of a border city the Union could not afford to lose. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical