Battle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee Frame Style:Ebony Frame Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth President

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published at a moment when a fracturing republic clung to its founder's bloodline as proof of inheritance

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The lithograph belongs to that anxious season when broadsides argued for a country still legally whole and visibly fracturing

Battle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee Frame Style:Ebony Frame Democratic Candidate for Sixteenth PresidentBattle of Atlanta, Death of General James B. McPherson, July 22d 1864, Army of the Tennessee a documentary lithograph fixing the moment a Union commander fell from his horse outside the besieged city, the smoke of Sherman's campaign still rising behind him. The composition treats McPherson's death as the war wanted to be remembered: deliberate, mounted, and unflinching. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical