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when the Union's surviving brass had hardened into legend and the work of remembrance demanded their faces arrayed in formal rank

The portrait carries the strange double weight of a First Lady at her zenith and a widow not yet aware she is one

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was kept in line by Union guns trained as much on the city behind them as on any Confederate threat ahead

Constitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington Size:36x24 postcard publishersConstitution of the United States and a Plan of the Capitol at Washington pairs the founding charter with the architectural ambition meant to house it articles of governance set beside the floor plan of the chamber where they would be argued, a republic drawn in ink and laid out in stone. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical