Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 antique zodiac where merchants and carriages choked

where merchants and carriages choked the avenue and Maiden Lane's jewelers and dry-goods men staked their claim to a city already convinced of its own ascendance

and the cabinet's stranger drawers

Booth mid-leap toward a stage that would never close

his likeness pressed back into civic service when the Republic needed its founding griefs to steady a generation marching toward Belleau Wood

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Joseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851-1857 antique zodiac where merchants and carriages chokedJoseph M. Hernandez, First Delegate to Congress From the Territory and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida, 1851 1857 a portrait of the Floridian planter who carried his territory's voice to Washington and its militia colors into the Seminole campaigns, rendered with the stiff dignity reserved for men holding a frontier in trust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,