American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting Abraham Lincoln 19th Century —

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait study of the wartime president

when the Republic had begun the slow

his face already bearing the ledger-weight of a country tearing itself toward something it could not yet name

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American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting Abraham Lincoln 19th Century —American Statesmen 1861 a gallery of the men who carried the Union into its hardest year, rendered in the engraver's solemn line. Their faces, arranged like a jury of intentions, belong to a republic still arguing with itself in cannon fire and committee rooms. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic