38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum rendered with the three stars

rendered with the three stars he wore as the first lieutenant general since Washington

the Ladies' Mile humming just north of the frame

Daniel Webster 1865 — a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death

A commemorative engraving marking the Republic's hundredth year

the First Turkish Envoy From the Sultan of Constantinople to the United States

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 era-antebellum rendered with the three stars38th 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