Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art four years of blood and

four years of blood and ledger reduced to Grant's terms scratched out in pencil and Lee's quiet assent

the great thoroughfare caught mid-swagger in its top-hat era

the marginal corrections of Adams and Franklin still visible in the hand of men arguing

Arms of Washington and Pedigree of Washington 1858 — a heraldic engraving tracing the General's ancestral line back through English gentry

Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century classy xmas art four years of blood andAbraham Lincoln, President of the United States, 19th Century a portrait of the rail splitter turned wartime executive, his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself, rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whose decisions were measured in regiments and graves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional