The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole charting the precise geometry of

charting the precise geometry of shadow as it spilled into craters no Victorian eye had yet named

observatories

where the Midwest learned to introduce itself by mail

where the tower was built to be unbuilt — a skeletal cast-iron sentinel bolted in segments so the whole 136-foot column could be dismantled and dragged inland when the Atlantic came hunting for it again

hushed window before Leverrier's mathematics dragged the eighth planet from the dark

The Defenders of Our Union 19th Century framed barber pole charting the precise geometry ofThe Defenders of Our Union 19th Century assembles the Federal command in commemorative portraiture Lincoln at the center of his generals, the Republic's preservers rendered in the reverent grammar of a nation cataloging the men who held it together while it bled. 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 lithographic