Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA rendering the everyday hardness of

rendering the everyday hardness of homestead and trail with the unsentimental eye of a witness who knew the West was a ledger

An astronomical lithograph from the age when the ephemeris was scripture and the morning star a doctrine unto itself

yacht races

Soldier Field Original Design from Bella Frye

side streets pooling into dusk

Death of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 Old_Map_of_VA rendering the everyday hardness ofDeath of Col. Ellsworth After Hauling Down the Rebel Flag at the Taking of Alexandria, Va., May 24th 1861 a martyr's lithograph rushed to print within weeks of the killing, fixing Elmer Ellsworth at the foot of the Marshall House stairs as the Union's first celebrated casualty. The secession banner is still in his hand, the war scarcely a month old. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of