Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 famous pilot quote The Death of the Gallant

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Three frame finishes: Ebony

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a wound bled out before aides could staunch it

his wife Julia and their children arranged in the careful symmetry of a household being introduced to the republic it would soon occupy

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 famous pilot quote The Death of the GallantAbraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title, the Sixteenth President rendered in the somber idiom reserved for martyrs, the ink still warm with April's wound. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,