Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art two old Whigs offering Union

two old Whigs offering Union and Constitution as a last incantation against the storm already gathering at Charleston and Montgomery

half a century after his death

in miniature

Cincinnati

Greeting cards and linen plates from the Mile High City

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art two old Whigs offering UnionDeath of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 memorializes the fall of Samuel Ringgold at Palo Alto, where the mobile cannon he had drilled into doctrine outlived him by an afternoon. The lithograph carries the elegiac swagger of Mexican War mourning Manifest Destiny pausing, briefly, to bury its first martyr. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,