Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift 19th Century

19th Century

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where Union and Confederate lines collided in the wooded ridges above the Oostanaula — the country tearing itself toward Atlanta

Feby 23d 1848

the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 Aloha Stadium gift 19th CenturyEncampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox, when the citizen soldier had become ceremonial again, the muster a civic ritual of remembrance rather than a summons to anything bloodier than drill. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical