38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map drawn nearly three decades later

drawn nearly three decades later by a hand still convinced the duel mattered

First Bishop of the National Haitian Church

Robert Cumming Schenck

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 ireland framed map drawn nearly three decades later38th Regiment Jefferson Guards New York State Artillery 1843 a militia document from the long peace before the storm, when state artillery companies drilled in handsome uniforms and borrowed the names of dead presidents, certain that the Republic's next war would be fought somewhere far from home. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical