Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The lithograph trades the ledger

The lithograph trades the ledger of recruits for something more intimate: a household photographed against the backdrop of a country still tearing itself apart

or a kitchen that takes its beer seriously

but the politics behind it were pure cider-barrel theater

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

and entered into the ephemeris

Castle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The lithograph trades the ledgerCastle Thunder Richmond VA 19th Century the converted tobacco warehouse on Cary Street where the Confederacy held its political prisoners, deserters, and accused spies. The image carries the grim civic weight of a building that became a byword for wartime detention in the rebel capital. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,