Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 Battle of the Monitor and

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac 1889 - Vintage Maritime Print — a chromolithograph rendering of Hampton Roads on that smoke-choked March morning in 1862

John Brown 19th Century — the abolitionist rendered with the severe gaze of a man already convinced that the republic's sin would only be answered in blood

11th of April 1862

the engraver's hand

Jefferson Davis and Family Size:36x24 Battle of the Monitor andJefferson Davis and Family the Confederate president rendered not in martial pose but in the domestic frame, surrounded by the wife and children whose fortunes were bound to a rebellion already collapsing. A portrait that softens the architect of secession into a father, as if the household could absolve the cause. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,