Battle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under Wrigley_Field_Wall Our reproduction is taken from

Our reproduction is taken from the engrossed parchment held at the National Archives

when New York's loyalties were still being rewritten in real time

The image carries the documentary stillness of a border city held in place by federal bayonets

drawn as his era of brokered peace was already cracking

Battle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under Wrigley_Field_Wall Our reproduction is taken fromBattle of Buena Vista Fought Feby 23rd 1847 in Which the American Army Under a Mexican War lithograph caught mid sentence, its truncated caption straining to name Taylor's outnumbered ranks holding the Angostura pass, the smoke of Santa Anna's columns still hanging over Manifest Destiny's bloodiest proof. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional