Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 framed barber pole and to the end

and to the end

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

when Good Friday's gunshot at Ford's Theatre transfigured a wartime president into the republic's first secular saint

Landing of the American Forces Under Genl Scott at Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 framed barber pole and to the endLanding 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