Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology General Philip Sheridan 1891 arrives

General Philip Sheridan 1891 arrives in the year of the cavalryman's death

all framed by a horizon that refuses to end

unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it

Stonewall Jackson 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Chancellorsky's woods claimed him

Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate

Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology General Philip Sheridan 1891 arrivesJoel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838. A portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer mid tenure under Van Buren, his War Department overseeing the bitter machinery of Cherokee removal and the Second Seminole War Manifest Destiny rendered as policy, signed in a careful hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional