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Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 — a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title

the moment a republic began

rendered in the documentary hand of an era still cataloguing what it had already overrun

where the capitol's limestone dome and the wrought-iron balconies of Quapaw Quarter find their way onto linen postcards and lithographed views — Main Street trolleys

Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President ofArmy of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies, each crescent, trefoil, and Maltese cross stitched into the woolen identity of men who marched under them. Rendered the year the guns finally cooled, it reads as both roster and elegy. 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