Hooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 constitution signing rendered here as a Victorian

rendered here as a Victorian cosmography where the firmament is given an axis and God

1846 — a campaign portrait of Old Fuss and Feathers in the year he would march toward Veracruz

drawn up as the republic neared its hundredth year and reached back to its founder for ballast

his tenure shadowed by the forced removals along the Trail of Tears and the slow churn of Seminole war in the Florida swamps

The lithograph carries the polished confidence of a Democrat riding Manifest Destiny straight into office

Hooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 constitution signing rendered here as a VictorianHooker at Chancellorsville May 3 1863 the third day's catastrophe rendered in ink, when Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac unraveled in the Virginia thickets and Jackson's flanking ghost still hung over the field. A scene drawn in the smoke of a Union undoing. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic