Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art the red-bearded zealot who seized

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a likeness rendered in the sober tonal register of a country already acquainted with casualty lists

his bearded gravity rendered in the heavy ink and steady line reserved for men who commanded fleets in a war fought as much by ledger as by cannon

the plainspoken cadence of a man who wrote his own beginnings before the country wrote his ending

the Confederate brigades breaking against earthworks where minutes of fighting cost what hours could not redeem

Death of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers vintage cigar art the red-bearded zealot who seizedDeath of Lieut. Col. Henry Clay Jr. of the Second Regiment Kentucky Volunteers a battlefield lithograph from the Mexican War, mourning the Great Compromiser's son fallen at Buena Vista, where Manifest Destiny collected its private debts and a Kentucky regiment learned what the rhetoric of expansion actually cost. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,