Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841 Vintage Fine Art First Regiment German Rifles

First Regiment German Rifles

A documentary engraving of the chamber where Bleeding Kansas tried to legislate its way out of its own gunfire — the free-state men convened in defiance of a proslavery legislature

Anthony Burns 1855 — the fugitive's likeness ringed by vignettes of his auction

when Old Rough and Ready was hoisted from the Mexican War's powder smoke into Whig parlors as the soldier-statesman destiny seemed to demand

Hon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841 Vintage Fine Art First Regiment German RiflesHon. John Bell, Secretary of War, 1841. A portrait of the Tennessee Whig at the moment William Henry Harrison's cabinet briefly seated him atop the War Department a tenure measured in weeks before Tyler's apostasy scattered the appointees, leaving Bell's brief command preserved here in the formal hand of antebellum political engraving. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the