Barbara Frietchie 1896 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Rendered in the early months

Rendered in the early months of the war

Capture of Fort Fisher 1865 renders the Union's amphibious assault on the Confederacy's last open Atlantic stronghold

and Jackson's long shadow

the kind of commemorative likeness a Gilded Age parlor wanted on its wall: the founder rendered marble-cool

the republic looking backward to steady itself

Barbara Frietchie 1896 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Rendered in the early monthsBarbara Frietchie 1896 revives the Frederick widow of Whittier's verse, her shawl and Union flag rendered three decades after Appomattox in the soft gravity of a commemorative lithograph the Civil War already passing into legend, its defiant grandmothers enshrined in parlor pigment. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and