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

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

Abraham Lincoln

The general of Veracruz rendered as candidate — a campaign portrait floated by a Whig party already cracking along its sectional seams

rendered here in the careful gravity of a man briefly hailed as a hero and quietly rebuked as a diplomat

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