A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
The American Civil War
A collection of 4 Posts
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 2) – Storming Marye's Heights
After the amphibious assault by the Union army two days prior, both armies, unknowing of the carnage to come, prepared for battle
The Battle of Fredericksburg (Part 1) – Crossing the Rappahannock
Illustrated eyewitness accounts of the Union's amphibious assault of Fredericksburg on Thursday, December 11th, 1862