Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 patent when the Union's surviving brass

when the Union's surviving brass had hardened into legend and the work of remembrance demanded their faces arrayed in formal rank

or simply someone who looks up at the sky with wonder

the victor of Appomattox photographed as a private man stepping into civic life

A portrait study of the General turned President

Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 patent when the Union's surviving brassAbraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 renders the prairie lawyer's almanac trial in courtroom lithograph Lincoln rising for Duff Armstrong, the moon's testimony pulled from a printed page, a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical