Battle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A lithograph of the Little

A lithograph of the Little Bighorn rendered in the romantic register the nation preferred — Custer upright amid the swirl

Andrew Hull Foote 19th Century renders the Union flag officer in the sober register of naval portraiture — the gunboat commodore of Forts Henry and Donelson

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

A border-state commander rendered in the early ink of the war

General in Chief United States Army

Battle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame A lithograph of the LittleBattle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers a lithograph thundering with the choreography of Doniphan's Missouri volunteers meeting lance and pennant on the dusty road to Chihuahua. Manifest Destiny rendered in gunsmoke, the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,