when a stout general in a battered straw hat became the unlikely vessel for Whig ambition and the country's swelling appetite for conquered territory
A commemorative engraving of the cabinet hour itself — Lincoln bent over the document that would rewrite the war's purpose
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The Zwietusch Beer Filter Patent Industrial Brewing Apparatus Blueprint belongs to the great age of American brewing
Hobart 1897 — a campaign chromolithograph rigging the Republican ticket to the old metaphor of the Republic as vessel
John Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 antique map jamaica when a stout general inJohn Alexander McClernand, Brigadier General USA, 1862 the Illinois politician turned soldier, photographed in the brass and braid of his commission the year he marched toward Fort Donelson and Shiloh, ambition stitched into every button of a uniform he had argued his way into wearing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,