Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 idaho postcard the war still wearing its

the war still wearing its first uniform

Andrew Hull Foote 19th Century renders the Union flag officer in the sober register of naval portraiture — the gunboat commodore of Forts Henry and Donelson

Glorious Charge of Hancock's Division

and any space that honors the country's most consequential reckoning

Ex-Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 idaho postcard the war still wearing itsEx Confederate Soldiers Home 1884 a photograph of the gray veterans nineteen years after Appomattox, gathered at an institutional refuge built by a defeated cause that had learned to call itself memory. The image carries the particular stillness of men who outlived the war they fought. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,