Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A portrait of the Ohio

A portrait of the Ohio governor in the year he took the statehouse

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when the colonies were a thin Atlantic fringe and the interior belonged to other nations entirely

when the sobriquet was still fresh on Confederate tongues and the Virginia general's stone-still brigade had become the Republic's first hard lesson that the war would be neither short nor bloodless

Washington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century Frame Style:Ebony Frame A portrait of the OhioWashington First in War First in Peace and First in the Hearts of His Countrymen 19th Century a 19th century commemorative engraving rendering Henry Lee's famous eulogy into pictorial scripture, the General fixed in posthumous marble while the young republic rehearses its founding myth in ink. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical