Battle of Nashville 1891 Toilet_Patent_Print Battle of Antietam 1887 —

Battle of Antietam 1887 — a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter-century after the bloodiest single day on American soil

1860s–1890s

from Jefferson's powdered restraint to McKinley's gilded lapel

Genl Franklin Pierce Fourteenth President of the United States 1853

Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 bookends a presidency by its terrible arithmetic — the year of Sumter to the year of Ford's Theatre

Battle of Nashville 1891 Toilet_Patent_Print Battle of Antietam 1887 —Battle of Nashville 1891 a commemorative lithograph rendered a quarter century after the guns fell silent, when Hood's shattered Army of Tennessee had become subject matter for engravers rather than mourners, and the December rout outside the Tennessee capital was being recast in the careful, civic hand of remembrance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National