Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Arms of the States and

Arms of the States and Territories of the American Union 1876

rendered with the hagiographic confidence of a print made for parlors that had survived the war

drawn when the university was still inventing its skyline

where Main Street meant cattle drives and courthouse domes rose like small capitols

where canvas tents and stacked rifles marked the slow grammar of an army at rest

Charge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M.B. Walker on the Friday Evening Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Arms of the States andCharge of the First Brigade Commanded by Col. M. B. Walker on the Friday Evening a battlefield lithograph that catches the brigade mid momentum, Walker's line surging through the failing light of a Friday that someone, somewhere, would remember for the rest of his life. 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