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Kimmel & Forster (fl. 1864-1865) The Defenders of Our Union.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02434 Author/Creator: Kimmel & Forster (fl. 1864-1865) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Print Date: 1864 Pagination: 1 print : b&w ; 61 x 49 cm. Order a Copy

Lithograph print with touches of white gouache added by hand. Five ovals in which there are portraits of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Naval officers David Porter, David G. Farragut (spelled Faragut), John A. B. Dahlgren (spelled Dahlgreen), and Union Generals William T. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Philip Sheridan.

Kimmel & Forster, fl. 1864-1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Porter, David Dixon, 1813-1891
Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Washington, George, 1732-1799

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