Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista Feby 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame where the long shadow of

where the long shadow of the war was kept tended by the men who had walked through it

so legend insisted

's last moments in the Mexican chaparral

Camp Thompson Encampment of the Springfield Light Guard

the republic catching its breath

Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista Feby 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame where the long shadow ofGallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista Feby 23rd 1847 a martial lithograph from the Mexican War, drawn in the heroic register a young republic reserved for its volunteer regiments, where Henry Clay Jr. fell on the chaparral slopes and Manifest Destiny acquired its first proper martyrology. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,