Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 alaska framed map its new steel-frame towers crowding

its new steel-frame towers crowding the skyline above Broad and Market with the unembarrassed vertical ambition of American capital learning what height could mean

when the face had thinned to bone and shadow and the war's arithmetic had carved itself into every line

Hobart 1897 — a campaign chromolithograph rigging the Republican ticket to the old metaphor of the Republic as vessel

it reads as both roster and elegy

Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 alaska framed map its new steel-frame towers crowdingCommander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 assembles the surviving Union officers nearly three decades on, their portraits ringed in the fraternal regalia of the GAR a veterans' lithograph that reads less like a roster than a civic liturgy, the war remembered by the men who outlived it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional