I have been reading a three-volume history of the U.S. Civil War. I have read it before and I know how it ends, but it is still interesting to go back through all the battles in so much detail. The history gives you a great appreciation for President Abraham Lincoln. There are a number of things in the Smithsonian that remind me of Lincoln. This bust is very well done and is very close to the life-mask that they have in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. This bust is by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was done in 1887, long after Lincoln was shot.
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