Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard rendered in the documentary hand

rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun

longhorns drifting across rangeland that runs flat to the horizon

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

catalogued

Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th-century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies — the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy

Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard rendered in the documentary handArmy of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies, each crescent, trefoil, and Maltese cross stitched into the woolen identity of men who marched under them. Rendered the year the guns finally cooled, it reads as both roster and elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the