Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology January 1842

January 1842

even as the Compromise of 1850 echoed in the halls he had once tried to keep above faction

unshowy gaze of the man about to inherit it

finishing the memoirs that would outlive him by weeks

Joel Roberts Poinsett, Secretary of War, 1838 framed astrology January 1842Joel 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