C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 when Lincoln was less a

when Lincoln was less a man than the country's preferred way of remembering itself

Chattanooga rail yards

A Victorian orrery rendered as devotional object

Commander and Past Commanders Grand Army of the Republic 1893 assembles the surviving Union officers nearly three decades on

C. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century Size:24x36 when Lincoln was less aC. Downing, Delegate to Congress from the Territory of Florida, 19th Century a portrait of the man dispatched from a peninsula still half wilderness, sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem. 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