American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting liberty recast in the iconography

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American Statesmen 1861 red barn painting liberty recast in the iconographyAmerican Statesmen 1861 a gallery of the men who carried the Union into its hardest year, rendered in the engraver's solemn line. Their faces, arranged like a jury of intentions, belong to a republic still arguing with itself in cannon fire and committee rooms. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic