Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Framed_Ford_Field Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 7

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 7 — a portrait engraving of the wartime president

and the long blue shadow of the Sangre de Cristos at dusk

where pontoons inched across cold water and Burnside's men took a town house by house before the slaughter at Marye's Heights still to come

his gaunt features rendered in the grave register reserved for men carrying a fracturing republic

with grim arithmetic

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers Framed_Ford_Field Abraham Lincoln 19th Century 7Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,