Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma Union Soldiers at Point Lookout

Union Soldiers at Point Lookout Tennessee 1863

Patrick's rising in Gothic ambition along the avenue of new fortunes

his sober likeness fixed at the moment Manifest Destiny found its most efficient executor

a late portrait of the Union's hardest rider rendered in the elegiac register of a republic still cataloging its survivors

A mourning print from the long aftermath

Justus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s old_tacoma Union Soldiers at Point LookoutJustus Henry Rathbone, Founder and Past Supreme Chancellor of the Order of Knights of Pythias, 1890s a fraternal portrait engraving of the schoolteacher who, in the smoldering aftermath of the war, dreamed up a brotherhood modeled on Damon and Pythias, regalia and ritual offered as balm to a fractured republic. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,