Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the Union's reluctant prophet staring

the Union's reluctant prophet staring past the viewer toward a country still tearing itself open

but the date does the haunting

a lantern lit against the dusk

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

Battle of New Berne NC 1885 Frame Style:Ebony Frame the Union's reluctant prophet staringBattle of New Berne NC 1885 a commemorative rendering issued two decades after the guns fell silent, returning to Burnside's 1862 coastal campaign with the careful retrospection of a generation now building monuments to what it once survived. The North Carolina shoreline appears here as memory rather than maneuver. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,