General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The plate carries the bearing

The plate carries the bearing of a man who believed himself the rightful commander of a revolution

the young naval lieutenant returning to his home state already wearing the laurel of empire's first hero

regional broadsides

when his quarrel with the slaveholding republic was still being waged in statehouse chambers and the cutting prose of antebellum debate

The face here is the one the country was learning to read for weather

General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The plate carries the bearingGeneral Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass, with Old Rough and Ready sketched mid council among his officers, the future presidency already gathering at his shoulder like Mexican dust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National