General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The plate is less diagram

The plate is less diagram than elegy

issued thirteen years after his death and circulated as the country was already pivoting toward a new war

the engraving renders that peculiar hush of generals deciding where men will fall by morning

regional broadsides

limestone main streets

General Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The plate is less diagramGeneral Taylor and His Staff on the Morning Before the Battle of Buena Vista, 1847 a campaign lithograph rendered in the quiet hour before Santa Anna's columns appeared in the pass, with Old Rough and Ready sketched mid council among his officers, the future presidency already gathering at his shoulder like Mexican dust. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National