Defender Martyr Father — Grant, Lincoln, Washington 1876 Size:18x24 the founding text reissued as

the founding text reissued as civic liturgy for a republic still stitching itself back together a decade after Appomattox

issued in 1896 when Gilded Age America had grown rich enough to mythologize the immigrant clerk who built its credit

First Regiment German Rifles

the country listening for the war John Brown swore was coming

Defender Martyr Father — Grant, Lincoln, Washington 1876 Size:18x24 the founding text reissued asDefender Martyr Father Grant, Lincoln, Washington 1876 arranges the republic's trinity in centennial procession: the general who preserved the Union, the president felled for it, and the Virginian who first imagined the thing three faces marshaled into a single lithograph of remembrance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical