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Abraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 vintage new york and the studies of peopleAbraham Lincoln the Martyr Victorious 1866 arrives a year after Ford's Theatre, the fallen president recast in apotheosis a lithograph in the elevated mourning style the country reached for when grief required allegory, and the Union's preservation demanded its first secular saint. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and