The American Union 1861 — a title printed in the very year the Union ceased to be one
when the martyred president had passed from politician to plaster saint
1872 — a documentary engraving of the granite shaft rising on Boston Common just seven years after Appomattox
and the silvering park converge in one long Manhattan exhale
his likeness enshrined among the patriots even as the ledger of the dead kept lengthening
Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The American Union 1861 —Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838. A portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer mid tenure under Van Buren, his War Department overseeing the bitter machinery of Cherokee removal and the Second Seminole War Manifest Destiny rendered as policy, signed in a careful hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional