Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map photographed at the rank he

photographed at the rank he earned through the smoke of Stones River and Liberty Gap

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

and the rhetorical floor of the House still rang with arguments over what kind of country this would become

just thirty-one days after that interminable inaugural address in the cold

Death of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 large Canada map photographed at the rank heDeath of Colonel John J. Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its prominent dead and Illinois sent home a name carved in heavier ink than most. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the