Our Heroes and Our Flag 1896 framed_chef Daniel Webster 1865 — a

Daniel Webster 1865 — a posthumous likeness of the Massachusetts orator issued more than a decade after his death

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John Alexander McClernand

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Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation

Our Heroes and Our Flag 1896 framed_chef Daniel Webster 1865 — aOur Heroes and Our Flag 1896 assembles a generation's commanders beneath the stars and stripes, a chromolithograph issued thirty one years after Appomattox when the work of remembrance had hardened into pageantry. The faces are Union, the framing reverent, the year significant a republic still arranging its dead into legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National