General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas Bird's Eye View of the

Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition

Captain Wilkes 1862 — a portrait of the Union officer whose seizure of Confederate envoys from the British mail packet Trent the previous November had nearly dragged Lincoln's beleaguered republic into a second war

The Military and Historical Portrait Group

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre

when the outcome of the wager was at last no longer in doubt

General Grant and His Family 1868 neutral christmas Bird's Eye View of theGeneral Grant and His Family 1868 a domestic portrait of the Union's foremost soldier in the year he traded the field for the ballot, posed beside Julia and the children as the country measured its scarred reconstruction against the steady, unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,