Battle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Grant at the Capture of

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

issued in the raw months after Ford's Theatre when printers raced to canonize Lincoln beside Washington as the second indispensable man

where Indian Police arrived before dawn to seize the Hunkpapa holy man and left him dead in the snow outside his own cabin

General in Chief United States Army

printed on the eve of a contest that would instead crown a Mexican War general and leave Webster

Battle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers Frame Style:Bourbon Frame Grant at the Capture ofBattle of Sacramento Feb 28th 1847 Terrific Charge of the Mexican Lancers a lithograph thundering with the choreography of Doniphan's Missouri volunteers meeting lance and pennant on the dusty road to Chihuahua. Manifest Destiny rendered in gunsmoke, the engraver's hand hurrying to keep pace with a war already writing itself into legend. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress,