Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 framed barber pole when the South had begun

when the South had begun the slow alchemy of turning its defeated commander into marble

before the country had time to learn what peace would cost

An Ordinance Abolishing Slavery in Missouri — the legislative breath by which a border state

printed in the war's final spring

Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 framed barber pole when the South had begunLanding of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847. A documentary lithograph of Winfield Scott's amphibious assault on the Mexican coast surfboats lowering into the Gulf, the city's walls waiting in the haze Manifest Destiny rendered in disciplined ranks and gunwales. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical