John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art An engraved tribute to the

An engraved tribute to the Scottish-born commodore styled in Latin as fleet commander

Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic

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and Jackson's long shadow

of Monticello's dome and the colonial brick of Williamsburg

John J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 New York canvas art An engraved tribute to theJohn J. Crittenden, Senator from Kentucky, 1841 a Senate portrait of the Kentuckian whose name would later attach itself to the last great compromise before the war, here rendered in the Whig prime of his career, when the chamber still believed rhetoric could outrun rupture. 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