Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A Lost Cause commemorative printed

A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox

Samuel Ryan Curtis 19th Century — the Union general who held Pea Ridge and pushed the war into the trans-Mississippi

his powdered profile rendered with the antiquarian reverence of an age busy curating its colonial ghosts long after the muskets had cooled

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

its braced iron legs drafted with the quiet confidence of engineers who knew that mud

Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A Lost Cause commemorative printedDeath of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 a documentary lithograph rendering Henry Clay Jr.'s last moments in the Mexican chaparral, the son of the Great Compromiser felled in a war his father had warned against. Manifest Destiny's confidence here meets its private cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical