Camp Meigs 1861 large World map their faces arranged in the

their faces arranged in the careful hierarchy of a lost cause still being mythologized in ink

one unbroken oath

A documentary engraving of the Georgia summer when Sherman threw his columns against the entrenched ridge and learned the price of frontal assault — smoke pooling in the pines

condensers

The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment

Camp Meigs 1861 large World map their faces arranged in theCamp Meigs 1861 a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war, when Readville's drill grounds outside Boston filled with raw volunteers learning the geometry of the line. The image carries that early war tension: tents in orderly rows, men still convinced the whole business would be brief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional