Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art Greeting cards and linen plates

Greeting cards and linen plates from the Mile High City

in miniature

half a century after his death

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

Death of Major Ringgold of the Flying Artillery 1846 framed lunar art Greeting cards and linen platesDeath 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,