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the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art 38th Regiment Jefferson Guards NewDeath 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,