Battle of Bull Run, Va, July 21st 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Barbers Implement Patent of

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the broadside speaking in two voices across sixty-three years — one announcing a republic

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Battle of Bull Run, Va, July 21st 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The Barbers Implement Patent ofBattle of Bull Run, Va, July 21st 1861 the first great clash along the Manassas creekbed, rendered while the smoke was still fresh and the Union still believed the war would be brief. A documentary lithograph of the day the country learned what it had truly begun. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic