Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 Definition_Barber when his thunderous senatorial cadence

when his thunderous senatorial cadence was already being fitted for marble

with Alcyone at their center

where every dressed stone had to be hoisted through Pacific swell

his gaunt face already carrying the ledger of a republic at war with itself

Nashville's Capitol on its hill

Our Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 Definition_Barber when his thunderous senatorial cadenceOur Memorial Picture: One Hundred Historical Men of the American Republic, 1876 a Centennial year composite portrait, gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon, the Republic taking stock of itself at one hundred and deciding whom to remember. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,