Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson 1884 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame printed in a year when

printed in a year when the wounds of the war were still fresh and the civic appetite for reconciliation louder than the truth of it

the Illinoisan's likeness pressed into service before the first shot at Sumter

anoints the victor of Manila Bay

its orbital geometry traced with the reverent precision of a draftsman who suspected Saturn's bands were divine punctuation

Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson 1884 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame printed in a year whenDr. Benjamin F. Stephenson 1884 a commemorative portrait of the Illinois army surgeon who founded the Grand Army of the Republic, rendered in the dignified hand reserved for veterans' fraternities, where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,