In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes 1884 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Our Heroes and Our Flags

Our Heroes and Our Flags 1895 gathers the Union's commanding officers beneath the regimental colors they carried through the war

when the martyred president had hardened into marble in the national imagination

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every baluster and cornice rendered in the civic vocabulary of a republic still rebuilding its self-image after the war

when the republic paused mid-stride to take stock of its first hundred — a chromolithograph engineered for parlors hungry to commemorate survival

In Memory of Our Fallen Heroes 1884 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Our Heroes and Our FlagsIn Memory of Our Fallen Heroes 1884 belongs to the long aftermath, a commemorative print issued nearly two decades after Appomattox when the Republic was still tallying its dead in granite and ink. The mourning is formal now, ritualized the bereavement of a generation grown older than the boys it lost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional