Joseph Eggleston Johnston 1860s-1890s Frame Style:Ebony Frame his face conscripted into the

his face conscripted into the civic liturgy of a republic newly bloodied by another war

Satan Tempting Booth to the Murder of the President 1865 renders the Ford's Theatre conspiracy as moral allegory — a horned figure whispering at the actor's ear

in which a youthful figure of the Republic grinds the twin serpents of secession and Copperhead dissent beneath his heel

drawn when the university was still inventing its skyline

Joseph Eggleston Johnston 1860s-1890s Frame Style:Ebony Frame his face conscripted into theJoseph Eggleston Johnston, 1860s1890s. The Confederate general rendered in the careful gravity of postwar portraiture a soldier who fought Sherman across Georgia and surrendered the second great rebel army at Bennett Place, his likeness preserved long after the guns went quiet. 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