Defender Martyr Father — Grant, Lincoln, Washington 1876 Size:18x24 hauling down a Confederate flag

hauling down a Confederate flag from the Marshall House

the country listening for the war John Brown swore was coming

retouched for a Gilded Age audience

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

Defender Martyr Father — Grant, Lincoln, Washington 1876 Size:18x24 hauling down a Confederate flagDefender 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