Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the Mississippi rendered less as

the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance

The lithograph trades the ledger of recruits for something more intimate: a household photographed against the backdrop of a country still tearing itself apart

where two timberclads lobbed shells into the dusk and bought Grant's broken line the night it needed

Mount Hood floating snow-bright on the horizon

Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse Blueprint the Sentinels Anatomy — a screw-pile sentinel born of the Patapsco's shifting shoals

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame the Mississippi rendered less asDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,