General Meagher at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va, June 1st 1862 runner_wall_art photographed in the careful civic

photographed in the careful civic hush of a city learning how to mourn its dead in stone

stitched together in spun steel

A campaign portrait of Manifest Destiny in human form

drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base

and orators rendered with the dignity that postbellum America so often refused them in the street

General Meagher at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va, June 1st 1862 runner_wall_art photographed in the careful civicGeneral Meagher at the Battle of Fair Oaks, Va, June 1st 1862 renders the Irish Brigade's commander on the Peninsula in the chaos of Seven Pines, sword raised through the smoke a lithograph that turns immigrant grit and green standards into the grammar of Union valor. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the