Forever Flying the Flag
By Robert May Behind this portrait of a citizen-soldier wearing his Medal of Honor and holding the tattered remnants of the Stars and Stripes—attached to a flagstaff with a makeshift
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Harper’s Weekly Needed an Image of Wallace’s Zouaves. They Commissioned This One.
By Ron Field, with an albumen print from the Rick Brown Collection of American Photography. The illustrated newspapers of the Civil War period, including Harper’s Weekly, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper,