Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 Fresno_Vintage_Map William Orlando Butler

William Orlando Butler

The Tobacconists Secret Bock Cigar Patent Blueprint reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

its defiant grandmothers enshrined in parlor pigment

Our Country's Heroes 1899 — a commemorative chromolithograph assembled in the flush of victory

Memorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892 Fresno_Vintage_Map William Orlando ButlerMemorial to the Loyal Sons of the South, the Brave Confederate Heroes 1892. A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox, when veterans' associations were busy carving granite and ink alike into the long elegy of remembrance, casting defeated soldiers as martyrs in the South's gathering myth. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National