General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century Estadio_Azteca_Print Cinque the Chief of the

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen — a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt USV 19th Century — a portrait of the future president in the volunteer khaki of the Rough Riders

Republican Candidate for President 1884

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General R.E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century Estadio_Azteca_Print Cinque the Chief of theGeneral R. E. Lee's Farewell Address 19th Century General Order No. 9, issued at Appomattox in April 1865, rendered as a keepsake broadside for a defeated South that would spend the next century reading and rereading its measured cadences as scripture. 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 publishers