James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 LA Poster General Ulysses S

General Ulysses S

It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing

rendered at the dawn of his Oregon crusade — a portrait steeped in the chamber's expansionist fever

paddlewheelers churning the brown river at Vicksburg

James Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 LA Poster General Ulysses SJames Buchanan Democratic Candidate for President of the United States 1856 a campaign lithograph of the Pennsylvania Democrat on the eve of his fraught ascension, rendered with the studied dignity of a party desperate to project calm as Kansas bled and the Union strained at every seam. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,