Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Andrew Johnson of Tennessee 1864 Soldier_Field_Print the President struck down at

the President struck down at its threshold

its title borrowing the language of mourning ribbons and regimental colors

and rose gardens spilling across Washington Park — a city of lumber barons and rain-slick streetcars cataloged in linen and real-photo postcards from the rail-and-roses era

its iron dome freshly hoisted as the city poured marble and ambition into the long municipal answer to a war only six years cold

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois Andrew Johnson of Tennessee 1864 Soldier_Field_Print the President struck down atAbraham Lincoln of Illinois Andrew Johnson of Tennessee 1864 the National Union ticket rendered in campaign lithography, a rail splitter from the prairie paired with a Tennessee Unionist while the war still smoldered. The pairing itself was an argument: that the republic could be stitched back together by the unlikeliest of hands. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the