38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map freshly emerged from the Compromise

freshly emerged from the Compromise that ended Reconstruction

rendered in the sober portraiture befitting the man who damned the torpedoes and gave the Union its first full admiral

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

Battle of Manila

Frontier Life 1875 — a documentary engraving from the year Custer was charting the Black Hills and the treaty ink was already drying into broken promise

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map freshly emerged from the Compromise38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical