Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Emancipation Proclamation 1896 — a

Emancipation Proclamation 1896 — a late-century commemorative reprinting of Lincoln's 1863 decree

The Gentlemans Vice Patent Drawing for Hands Free Cigar Apparatus captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

General Philip Sheridan 1891 arrives in the year of the cavalryman's death

mourning rendered as martial dignity in the long aftermath of the war he survived

George Reef Lighthouse Architectural Plans the Impossible Light Station Blueprint drawn for the most punishing build on the Pacific — a granite fortress wedged onto Northwest Seal Rock six miles off California's Del Norte coast

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Emancipation Proclamation 1896 — aDeath of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing, fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty. The secession banner is still in his hand, the war scarcely a month old. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of