General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 antique map America Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 3

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 3 — a portrait of the rail-splitter turned wartime president

1849 — a congressional portrait of the Accomack firebrand whose tongue could lash a chamber into silence

where draped catafalque and silent crowds rendered in careful line work bear witness to a republic still bleeding from Ford's Theatre nineteen days prior

every rivet and bulkhead drawn with the gravity of someone who knew the weight of water overhead

General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 antique map America Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 3General Pickett Taking the Order to Charge From General Longstreet, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 the moment rendered in ink before the field turned to slaughter, Longstreet's reluctant nod passing to Pickett as fifteen thousand men prepared to walk into the guns across that long Pennsylvania wheat. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical