Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 the 7th Cavalry collapsing into

the 7th Cavalry collapsing into legend before the smoke had even cleared the Montana grass

Capitulation of Vera Cruz: the Mexican Soldiers Marching Out and Surrendering — a documentary engraving of Scott's 1847 siege ending in formal procession

and the weight of a country at war with itself became the visual shorthand for the Union itself

rendered at a moment when the young republic was still learning to receive the world's old courts — Ottoman robes inked with the careful curiosity of a nation testing its diplomatic reach

The likeness carries that peculiar Whig stillness

Camp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW Size:24x18 the 7th Cavalry collapsing intoCamp of the 7th Maine Volunteer Regiment, Patterson Park, Baltimore, MD, Col. Marshall, Looking SSW a documentary view of canvas rows pitched in a city park, the down east volunteers under Marshall's command holding the Chesapeake's nervous border while the Republic measured its own loyalty in regiments. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional