Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its title borrowing the language

its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors

its halls billeted with Ohio Volunteers in the early spring of occupation — the documentary record of a Tennessee city held by Union arms

or a man's bathroom built around a straight razor and a leather strop

Gen Robert E Lee at Fredericksburg Dec 13 1862 — the commander observing from Marye's Heights as wave after Union wave broke against the stone wall below

The Massachusetts senator rendered in the final year of his life

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its title borrowing the languageCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical