James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Size:24x36 rendered in the third year

rendered in the third year of the war when its sabers and stalls had become both heirloom and instrument

The Broadway Line Gilded Age Street Scene moves at the cadence of a horsecar clattering past plate-glass storefronts and gaslit awnings

A late-century commemorative portrait of the man who mustered Iowa's regiments into the Union ranks — issued thirty years after the guns fell silent

in waxed lapels and steady gaze

and the document was already passing from law into legend

James Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 Size:24x36 rendered in the third yearJames Madison Porter Secretary of War 1843 a cabinet portrait of Tyler's brief appointee, the Pennsylvania jurist whom the Senate would refuse to confirm, his tenure at the War Department a footnote in the bruised politics of a presidency without a party. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers