Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its halls billeted with Ohio

its halls billeted with Ohio Volunteers in the early spring of occupation — the documentary record of a Tennessee city held by Union arms

A chromolithograph rallying the Northern imagination at the very moment of rupture

its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors

or a man's bathroom built around a straight razor and a leather strop

bourbon enthusiasts

Cornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender Frame Style:Canvas Wrap its halls billeted with OhioCornwallis is Taken! Lieut. Col. Tilghman of Washington's Staff Announcing the Surrender an engraving of the courier's ride from Yorktown, the moment a young aide de camp carried news that a continent had wagered everything on, delivered breathless to a Congress that had not yet dared believe it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical