Illustrations of the Mass 1874 modern New York map banners to insist that the

banners to insist that the long shadow of Sumter and Appomattox still belonged to them

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

rendered in the sober lithographic style befitting a man who preferred ink to oratory and influence to applause

the lithographer's careful shading lending dignity to a coalition already fracturing over slavery's westward creep

and the slow arithmetic of a Union held together by ink

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