Battle of Resaca, May 13 to 16, 1864 (1889) Size:36x24 before the whiskers and the

before the whiskers and the war — Lincoln rendered with the smooth jaw of a Springfield circuit rider

The Gentlemans Morning Ritual Patent Drawing reads as a study in restraint — the close

the cigar still lit

A campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser in the year his third bid for the presidency faltered against Polk and the gathering tide of annexation — Clay rendered in the steady gravity of Whig lithography

The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise

Battle of Resaca, May 13 to 16, 1864 (1889) Size:36x24 before the whiskers and theBattle of Resaca, May 13 to 16, 1864 (1889). A retrospective lithograph of Sherman's opening blow into Georgia, where Union and Confederate lines collided in the wooded ridges above the Oostanaula the country tearing itself toward Atlanta, rendered a quarter century later in the careful hand of memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional