Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap deliberate work of canonizing its

deliberate work of canonizing its wartime executives in lithographed remembrance

The plate renders cometary capture as something almost penitential: wanderers sentenced to orbit

splintered timber

rendered in the brisk martial shorthand of the Mexican War

Goff's Evolution of the American Flag charts the republic's banner across its many alterations — from Grand Union to Betsy Ross to the star-crowded fields of later admissions — a draftsman's genealogy of stripes and stars rendered as a single national lineage

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap deliberate work of canonizing itsCapture of Fort Fisher 1865 a documentary engraving of the amphibious assault that sealed Wilmington's harbor and strangled the last Confederate lifeline to the sea. The image carries the cold geometry of earthworks and naval bombardment, drawn with the certainty of a war finally turning toward its end. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional