38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map Robert Cumming Schenck

Robert Cumming Schenck

rendered in the sober portraiture befitting the man who damned the torpedoes and gave the Union its first full admiral

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

Battle of Manila

drawn nearly three decades later by a hand still convinced the duel mattered

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map Robert Cumming Schenck38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical