"The Civil War memorial secretary was widely embraced as a folk art treasure. Fashioned from walnut, maple and oak, it was said to have been created circa 1876 to honor John Bingham, a Union infantryman who had fallen at Antietam. ... The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford purchased the work and gave it prominent display." Until […]
SOURCE: The New York Times at 11:32AM on March 13, 2018