In Memory of Our Hero Chieftain Patriot Soldier and Statesman Ulysses S. Grant 1885 New_Orleans_Map Emancipation Proclamation 1886 — a

Emancipation Proclamation 1886 — a commemorative lithograph issued more than two decades after Lincoln's decree

the brass of his epaulets rendered with the deliberate flattery of antebellum portraiture

where adobe missions and the white arcades of the Hotel San Carlos trade postcard space with desert sunsets the color of struck flint

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

The portrait carries the bearing of a Commodore newly minted Admiral

In Memory of Our Hero Chieftain Patriot Soldier and Statesman Ulysses S. Grant 1885 New_Orleans_Map Emancipation Proclamation 1886 — aIn Memory of Our Hero Chieftain Patriot Soldier and Statesman Ulysses S. Grant 1885 a mourning lithograph cast in the elevated grammar of a nation burying its general president, every honorific stacked like pallbearers behind the name. The year names the loss: Grant gone at Mount McGregor, and the republic reaching, once again, for the language of remembrance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the