His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Frame Style:Ebony Frame leaving Bell's brief command preserved

leaving Bell's brief command preserved here in the formal hand of antebellum political engraving

The scene renders the Lexington as a floating pyre against black water

Just Arrived — a tableau heavy with steamer trunks and salt-stiff coats

the Confederate brigades breaking against earthworks where minutes of fighting cost what hours could not redeem

Charles Lee Esqr

His Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811 Frame Style:Ebony Frame leaving Bell's brief command preservedHis Excellency Elbridge Gerry LLD Governour of Massachusetts 1811. A signer of the Declaration rendered here in the full ceremony of his Bay State governorship the engraving styling him with that antique honorific 'Governour,' a year before his name would be welded forever to the redistricting cartoon that gave us the word gerrymander. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the