The Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 Bills_Fan_Gift and whose command at Fredericksburg

and whose command at Fredericksburg gave the war one of its bleakest ledgers

Thomas Corwin

The Celestial Wheel of Fate Antique Zodiacal Chart turns the heavens into a great revolving oracle

ledgered in the ornamental confidence of late-century engraving

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

The Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 Bills_Fan_Gift and whose command at FredericksburgThe Boyhood of Lincoln, an Evening in the Log Hut 1868 renders the martyred president as frontier child by firelight, an 1868 lithograph already busy mythologizing him three years into the grief the log hut, the borrowed book, the mother's shadow assembled into national 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