John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea The American Union 1861 —

The American Union 1861 — a title printed in the very year the Union ceased to be one

the Fourteenth Amendment fresh ink

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 — a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge

The portrait carries the stiff dignity of a Mexican War–era campaign sheet

John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 developer_gift_idea The American Union 1861 —John Catron, Judge of the Supreme Court of the US, 1839 a Jacksonian appointee rendered in the sober gravity befitting the bench, his likeness drawn the year he took his seat among the brethren who would, two decades later, hand down Dred Scott and split the republic at its seams. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and