Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to

Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs to the long iconographic record of the wartime president — one plate among many that fixed his gaunt features into the visual grammar of the Union

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Lincoln and Hamlin 1860

every doorway holding a story the photographer was lucky to catch

sheep wagons rolling in from the Basque country

Camp Meigs 1861 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap Abraham Lincoln 19 belongs toCamp Meigs 1861 a documentary view from the first feverish summer of the war, when Readville's drill grounds outside Boston filled with raw volunteers learning the geometry of the line. The image carries that early war tension: tents in orderly rows, men still convinced the whole business would be brief. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional