Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art 1847 — a campaign lithograph

1847 — a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass

when civic and sacred ritual alike were being redrawn for a reunified republic

a lithographer's roll call printed in the war's second year — when McClellan still loomed largest and the names beside him had not yet been sorted by victory or disgrace

where four centuries after Columbus the republic dressed its industrial muscle in Beaux-Arts plaster and called the result a New World

mid-term and mid-century

Heroes of the War 1891 barbershop chair art 1847 — a campaign lithographHeroes of the War 1891 a commemorative lithograph assembled a generation after Appomattox, when the Union's surviving generals had hardened into bronze and lithographic ink, their faces arranged in the careful gridwork of a republic still negotiating who, exactly, deserved remembering. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,