Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century framed bookkeeper 19th Century — a documentary

19th Century — a documentary engraving of the Boer War's bitter river crossings

The Farmer 1854 trades the general's sash for a planter's coat

rendered with the polish of a print made for parlors that followed the racing columns religiously

Oct 18 1813 (1846) — a mid-century lithograph reaching back three decades to fix the Shawnee confederacy's last stand in the Upper Canadian mud

dark-walled reading rooms

Brigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century framed bookkeeper 19th Century — a documentaryBrigadier General Irvin McDowell, US Army, 19th Century the commander who carried the Union into the disaster at Bull Run, rendered here in the formal portraiture of a man whose epaulets outlasted his reputation, the war's first burdened general staring back across the long ledger of blame. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical