Illustrated Chart of Our American Republic 1874 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered in the grave engraver's

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men who had seen Shiloh and the Wilderness — the quiet weight of a soldier asked to govern the country he had only just finished holding together

the war's blood-soaked ledger closed with a signature and a borrowed table

in an age already retreating from Reconstruction's promises

Late Senator From South Carolina

Funeral Obsequies of the Late President Abraham Lincoln

Illustrated Chart of Our American Republic 1874 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame rendered in the grave engraver'sIllustrated Chart of Our American Republic 1874 a chromolithograph schoolroom panorama issued in the centennial's long approach, when the war was still close enough to ache and the Republic took inventory of itself: presidents in medallion rows, eagles, statehouses, the orderly grammar of a nation rehearsing its own continuity. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the