Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art 1861-1897 — a portrait of

1861-1897 — a portrait of the Mississippi minister who

A portrait of the Union's blunt instrument at the precise hinge of his fame — Appomattox barely cooled

proof that even in the firmament

and to forgive him the duel that ended him on the Weehawken bluffs

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

Paul Jones 1792 Swiss Flag Art 1861-1897 — a portrait ofPaul Jones 1792 a posthumous engraving of the Scottish born captain whose name the Royal Navy spat and the Continental Congress canonized, rendered four years after his Paris death with the lingering smoke of the Bonhomme Richard still clinging to the line work. 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