Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Alabama Mobile arrives draped in

Alabama Mobile arrives draped in Spanish moss and Gulf humidity — a port city where azaleas riot along Government Street and shrimp boats nose into Mobile Bay

and veiled figures arranged in the moralizing grammar of late-century lodge culture

deliberate work of writing Black achievement into the visible record of the Republic

ritualized — the bereavement of a generation grown older than the boys it lost

Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Alabama Mobile arrives draped inBombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861. Thirty four hours of mortar fire rendered in smoke and ink the opening salvo against a federal garrison in a Carolina harbor, drawn while the cannon was still warm and the country had not yet learned the word it was becoming. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional