General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 the moment a republic began

the moment a republic began

19th Century — a quiet interior of the general's working sanctum

1458672 Ball Design by Cc Witmer Et Al Filed November 17 1921 — Witmer's filing maps the curving seams of a football in the years when the ball was still a fat

cataloguing the campaigns of the man whose stubborn arithmetic ground the rebellion to dust and who now stood

Cockspur Island

General John Alexander Logan Family 1887 Size:36x24 the moment a republic beganGeneral John Alexander Logan Family 1887 a domestic portrait of the Union general and Illinois senator gathered with his kin the year after his death, the fierce architect of Memorial Day softened here into patriarch, the household composed in that particular Gilded Age stillness reserved for men whose public lives had just become memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,