Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 USA framed map and the long blue shadow

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

where the Federal rout along Bull Run dispelled any lingering illusion of a ninety-day quarrel

the gaze of a man reading casualty lists by lamplight

when photography and lithography were enlisted in the slow

The parlor here is a balm

Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 USA framed map and the long blue shadowJourney of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 a narrative lithograph tracing the arc from cotton row to Union blue, drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink. 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 lithographic publishers