Battle of Mission Ridge Nov 25th 1863, 1886 xmas bells canvas Born Jan 24 1825

Born Jan 24 1825

seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century

Whig Candidate for Vice President of the United States 1852

when Harrison's Tippecanoe legend was repackaged into the first truly modern presidential pageant

two decades later

Battle of Mission Ridge Nov 25th 1863, 1886 xmas bells canvas Born Jan 24 1825Battle of Mission Ridge Nov 25th 1863, 1886 a chromolithograph rendered two decades after the smoke cleared above Chattanooga, when the Union assault up that improbable slope had hardened from chaos into legend. The print belongs to the long work of remembrance, the postwar republic ordering its bloodied geography into something a parlor wall could hold. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the