Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor and the cabinet's stranger drawers

and the cabinet's stranger drawers

captured at the high tide of American maritime ambition when clipper hulls and whaling fleets carried the young republic's commerce to every meridian

five years early

when Old Rough and Ready's victories along the Rio Grande were already being engraved into a presidency Manifest Destiny had not yet finished arguing for

Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor and the cabinet's stranger drawersBelger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 a wartime view of the Union encampment perched on the city's northern edge, where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was garrisoned in tent rows and quartermaster's ledgers. The image carries the documentary stillness of a border city held in place by federal bayonets. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical