Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art and the broad prairie main

and the broad prairie main street where ranch country met railroad town under an open Dakota sky

American Centennial Progress 1875 arrives a year ahead of the Philadelphia Exposition

The commemorative plate reads as ledger and echo

when a country still bleeding from Appomattox had to learn a second kind of grief

the names fifty-six men signed

Franz Sigel 19th Century New York canvas art and the broad prairie mainFranz Sigel 19th Century the German born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic, his likeness circulated through immigrant regiments who marched under the rallying cry "I fights mit Sigel" toward the bloodied fields of Pea Ridge and New Market. 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