Stonewall Jackson 1877 — a posthumous likeness issued more than a decade after Chancellorsky's woods claimed him
unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it
even as the Compromise of 1850 echoed in the halls he had once tried to keep above faction
Alexander Hamilton 198 renders the Treasury's first architect in the careful linework reserved for men whose ideas outlived their duels — the West Indian orphan who argued a national bank into being and signed his Federalist essays with the cool nerve of someone who knew the republic's ledgers would decide its fate
January 1842
Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology Stonewall Jackson 1877 — aJoel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838. A portrait of the South Carolinian diplomat turned cabinet officer mid tenure under Van Buren, his War Department overseeing the bitter machinery of Cherokee removal and the Second Seminole War Manifest Destiny rendered as policy, signed in a careful hand. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional