Abraham Lincoln 1860 little rock art The Gallant Capt

The Gallant Capt

The image carries the weight of a South still convinced of its commanders

dressing wounds and drafting verse in the same breath

when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely

Abraham Lincoln 1860 little rock art The Gallant CaptAbraham Lincoln 1860 the prairie lawyer rendered on the eve of his improbable ascent, before Sumter, before Antietam, before the long war made his face the most photographed in the republic. A campaign year likeness still innocent of the toll command would extract. 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