General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed here rendered in the quieter

here rendered in the quieter idiom of supply: tents in orderly rows

The Peace Ball at Fredericksburg

The Ganim Apparatus Patent for Oriental Smoke & Vapor is the kind of detail that survives only in the patent record — a small mechanical solution dedicated entirely to the pleasure of a slow draw

A mourning lithograph from the funeral train's slow midwestern passage

General Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma — Capt. May Receiving His Orders Denver_Framed here rendered in the quieterGeneral Taylor at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma Capt. May Receiving His Orders a documentary lithograph of May 9, 1846, the moment before the dragoon charge that overran Mexican guns and gave the young republic a taste of the conquest its politicians had been promising. 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