abraham

One of the many interesting aspects, to me, of this much reproduced photo is the figure at right in the big hat with his hand on a saber: George Armstrong Custer.

To my view, they are all little men but one. Sacket might give him a go.

I never visited the Antietam Battlefield, but I DID visit Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, Chancelorsville, and Fredericksburg. It's a sobering visit and moment in your lifetime to traverse soil that was drenched in the blood of Union and Confederate soldiers. Hallowed ground, that these sites are. But, in the words of Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, " These (Confederate) men were once our enemy....they are now our fellow countrymen." And so, the confederates merely dropped their rifles, and went fishing for the rest of the day.

I wonder why this photo was copied with the book and the large margin included. It would be nice to be able to see the picture as it was originally taken,

This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post The 1860s across the Commons.

Wowza~talk about stepping back in history~thanks~

Fantastic photo of a great man in history. I only wonder why this photo is flipped. When flipped horizontal, it reads ....... " lincoln's funeral " written on the top. Just wondering ~

The photo, as presented here, is correctly oriented. If you look at one of the archival TIFFs on the LOC website, which have much higher resolution, you can see several signs on the buildings; they're not flipped. Here's the explanation: Remember that this is a glass plate negative; it's simply a big, clear glass shelf with photographic emulsion coated on it. (The Victorians didn't have the plastics used in modern "film"; the best they could do was clunky, fragile glass.) So, the unknown archivist who wrote "lincoln's funeral" simply wrote it on the wrong side of the plate, so that it came out backward when printed. It didn't really matter, since the text was intended to be cropped out of prints anyway. It was just there as an indexing aid.

Very moving. He was a great and special president. One in Fourty-four.

The solemn funeral procession treks its way up the nationally famous Pennsylvannia Avenue, but the memory of Father Abraham Lincoln will simply endure forever in the hearts of free men everywhere. Well done, Father Abraham...enter into the kingdom! 1809-2009. The BICENTENNIAL of Abraham Lincoln.

interesting.. i had not seen a photo of him with his hair like that. he looks very different.

He looks like he just got his hair blown dry. Cool to see a different view of him. Wish I could see it in 3-D as intended

bsmif: Look at it, then cross your eyes until the two images meet in the middle. You'll see a 3D version of it.

yeah! the 3d effect works! i would love to see all of these at a larger res, to really see details

Wow! That actually works!!! -- Seen in your Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) set. (?)