John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map and a republic forced to

and a republic forced to read its own grief by gaslight

Sept 17th 1862 — a battlefield lithograph of the Union's most cautious commander on the bloodiest single day the republic would ever record

of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg

A piece worth giving

John Charles Frémont 1861 framed World map and a republic forced toJohn Charles Frmont 1861 the Pathfinder rendered in his second act, no longer the explorer of western passes but the Union general whose Missouri emancipation order ran ahead of Lincoln's caution and cost him his command. 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 (Currier & Ives, Kurz & Allison,