Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Patriots_Poster 1917 — a mobilization broadside

1917 — a mobilization broadside from the spring America abandoned its old neutrality

Senator From New Jersey 1835-1841

The Death of the Gallant Major Ringgold 1846 commemorates the artillery officer mortally wounded at Palo Alto in the opening days of the Mexican War — a lithograph that converts the recoil of his own flying batteries into the first martyrdom of Manifest Destiny

the rituals of secular sainthood

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Battle of Williamsburgh 1862 Patriots_Poster 1917 — a mobilization broadsideBattle of Williamsburgh 1862 renders McClellan's first serious clash up the Peninsula a muddy, rear guard tangle outside the old colonial capital, where Hooker and Longstreet traded volleys among the redoubts and the road to Richmond first revealed how dearly it would be paid for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and