John W. Sterling 1918 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the year of Gettysburg and

the year of Gettysburg and the Emancipation Proclamation

and bathers packed elbow-to-elbow along the Brooklyn shore

his name and regiment inked into the same ledger that had counted him toward Appomattox

the Roney Plaza's Moorish towers

John W. Sterling 1918 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the year of Gettysburg andJohn W. Sterling 1918 a portrait fixed in the sober light of the war's final year, when a single name and a date carried the whole weight of mobilization, the draft rolls, and the quiet ledger of American men summoned to a European reckoning. 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 &