Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its truncated caption straining to

its truncated caption straining to name Taylor's outnumbered ranks holding the Angostura pass

the moment empire found its pretext

struck and re-struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth

Battle of Allatoona Pass 1887 — a commemorative engraving rendered more than two decades after the Georgia ridge ran red

Emancipation 1867 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame its truncated caption straining toEmancipation 1867. Two years past Appomattox, the engraver's allegory arrives in the long shadow of the Thirteenth Amendment broken shackles and rising figures rendered with the civic earnestness of a republic still arguing, in Congress and in print, what freedom was actually going to mean. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical