Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor govern themselves

govern themselves

five years early

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

a turn-of-the-century exercise in civic remembrance that treats the flag less as cloth than as a chronicle of the nation that raised it

Belger Barracks Baltimore Md 1863 july 4th decor govern themselvesBelger 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