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Red Grooms. Part of the Federal Garrison at Fort Negley, Nashville, 2014

which wasn’t exactly what I intended. Ideally, I would have liked a crowd of living people

wearing makeup and costumes I designed, instead of the real crowd in an unreal set with

dummies mixed in.

Seven Southern states

had already seceded by the

time Lincoln spoke at Peek-

skill, 85 years after this union

of states was founded, …in

regard to the difficulties that

lie before me and our beloved

country, that if I can only be as

generously and unanimously Red Grooms. Lincoln On the Hudson, 2016, Detail
sustained as the demonstra-

tions I have witnessed indicate I

shall be, I shall not fail … .

Like the Westchester crowd surround-

ing Lincoln, we sense the excitement and

apprehension of that moment in our collec-

tive history.

In the exhibition Who Fought to Save

the Union, the Museum’s collections person-

alize the conflict with artifacts that belonged

to local residents — from a soldier’s appoint-

ment to the New-York State Infantry, which

was signed by President Lincoln, to veterans’

reunion ribbons, to toys and objects for Chess and Checker Board with Abraham Lincoln and
the home. Union Military Leaders, 1862

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