Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard the moment a republic began

the moment a republic began

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

Andrew Allen

Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th-century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies — the era when astronomy was still natural philosophy

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth President of the United States Born Feby 12th 1809 Died April 15th 1865 — a mourning lithograph that compresses a life into two dates and a title

Army of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 wisconsin postcard the moment a republic beganArmy of the United States Corps Badges, 1865 a heraldic ledger of the Union's fighting bodies, each crescent, trefoil, and Maltese cross stitched into the woolen identity of men who marched under them. Rendered the year the guns finally cooled, it reads as both roster and elegy. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the