Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 Size:24x36 where the South commissioned its

where the South commissioned its martyrs in ink and sold them back to itself as devotion

whose ironclads on the western rivers translated abolitionist conviction into hard cannon and harder current

The year places it at the tail end of the open range

A campaign-ready portrait of the Mexican War's most quotable general

engraved here in the long aftermath of the war his words had tried to forestall

Journey of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 Size:24x36 where the South commissioned itsJourney of a Slave From the Plantation to the Battlefield 1863 a narrative lithograph tracing the arc from cotton row to Union blue, drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink. 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 publishers