James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where the firmament thins and

where the firmament thins and the sun itself becomes just another star

Grant 1892 — a posthumous likeness of the general-turned-president issued seven years after his death

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where the South commissioned its martyrs in ink and sold them back to itself as devotion

1860s–1890s

James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap where the firmament thins andJames Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 a cabinet portrait of Tyler's brief appointee, the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm, his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party. 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 publishers