Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if he knew the

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

where Jackson's flanking march cost the Confederacy its sharpest blade and the Wilderness swallowed whole regiments into ledger and legend

A Lost Cause commemorative printed nearly three decades after Appomattox

here rendered in the Whig prime of his career

Death of Colonel Clay, Battle of Buena Vista, February 23rd 1847 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame as if he knew theDeath 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