Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap splintered timber

splintered timber

It is an orrery flattened onto paper

and this lithograph gathers the colleagues around him with the hushed theatricality reserved for a republic losing one of its last living links to the Founding

charted with the swaggering certainty of a metropolis convinced its commerce could outrun the country's unraveling

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap splintered timberCapture of Fort Fisher 1865 a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea. The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment, drawn with the certainty of a war finally turning toward its end. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional