the republic remembered as a single crowded room
the soldier still visible beneath the statesman
when the prairie lawyer from Illinois was still circuit-riding through county courthouses
rendered when he was Secretary of State and the country was busy swallowing the spoils of the Mexican War
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
Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, 12th & 13th of April 1861 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the republic remembered as aBombardment 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