Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits The Little Magician rendered in

The Little Magician rendered in the official hand of a sitting executive — a portrait from the years the Panic of 1837 still smoldered beneath his desk

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 — the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency

where Manifest Destiny found its general and the Mexican War found its first laurels along a contested southern river

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Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits The Little Magician rendered inDestruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendering the Mississippi's most stubborn ironclad in her final, fiery moments off Baton Rouge in August 1862. The Essex stands close enough to feel the heat, her guns answering as the Arkansas blooms into smoke and ruin along the river's brown current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century