House of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century framed battle art Henshaw arrived at the Navy

Henshaw arrived at the Navy Department as steam was beginning to displace sail — his recess appointment rendered in the formal portraiture of a republic still arguing

and bronze relief

Major General Winfield Scott 1847 — the conqueror of Veracruz rendered at the height of his Mexican campaign

with a single broadside

The portrait belongs to the long Reconstruction afterglow

House of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century framed battle art Henshaw arrived at the NavyHouse of the First Free State Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Kansas, 19th Century. A documentary engraving of the chamber where Bleeding Kansas tried to legislate its way out of its own gunfire the free state men convened in defiance of a proslavery legislature, drafting a republic in miniature while the larger Union ground toward fracture. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library