Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 family name farm and stockade where Confederate prisoners

and stockade where Confederate prisoners and Union recruits alike passed the war's longest hours

Woodmen of the World Father JC Root 1890 — a fraternal portrait of Joseph Cullen Root

Encampment of First Brigade Maine Volunteer Militia 1885 — a documentary engraving of canvas rows and dress parade twenty years after Appomattox

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Abraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 family name farm and stockade where Confederate prisonersAbraham Lincoln Defending Young Armstrong 1865 renders the prairie lawyer's almanac trial in courtroom lithograph Lincoln rising for Duff Armstrong, the moon's testimony pulled from a printed page, a defense argued by the same hands then steering a country through its bloodiest reckoning. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical