Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Raphael Semmes of the Confederate

Raphael Semmes of the Confederate Raider Alabama

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and the portrait carries that double weight — a forty-eighter in a federal uniform

popular sovereignty offered as a final compromise to a Union already past compromising

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 Frame Style:Ebony Frame Raphael Semmes of the ConfederateMajor General Zachary Taylor 1848 the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency, a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical