Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art struck and re-struck until the

struck and re-struck until the man himself receded behind the marble of his own myth

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough 19th Century — a portrait of the Union flag officer whose North Atlantic Blockading Squadron pressed the coastline of the Confederacy

the strain — drawn with a seriousness usually reserved for industrial machinery

its truncated caption straining to name Taylor's outnumbered ranks holding the Angostura pass

Abraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency framed razor art struck and re-struck until theAbraham Lincoln's Return Home After His Successful Campaign for the Presidency renders the prairie lawyer's homecoming to Springfield in the brittle hush before secession a lithograph of triumph already shadowed by the ledgers of recruits and casualties the next four years would demand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,