Images

Portrait of Henry Clay (1777-1852) as Speaker of the House, painting by Matthew Harris Jouett, 1818. Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Representative James Tallmadge, Jr. (1778-1853) of New York, whose 'Tallmadge Amendment' sparked the controversy that led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By Jeremiah Nims, 1825. New York Public Library.

Harriet Tubman in failing health. Restored version of a photograph taken in 1911. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Former slave, abolitionist, and famous conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, cropped from the original photograph by Horatio Seymour Squyer, 1885. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

This map illustrates the situation in the United States n 1850, as the country faced growing sectional tension over the expansion of slavery into new territories gained from the Mexican-American War. The Compromise of 1850 aimed to preserve...

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862), a colonel in the US Army during the Utah War (1857-58). Photo by Samuel C. Mills. National Archives.

Portrait of Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) in his military uniform, circa 1861.

The death of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) at the Battle of Shiloh, 6 April 1862. By Henry Mosler, 1862.

US troops in the Battle of Monterrey. Illustration from Henry Montgomery's book The Life of Major General Zachary Taylor, New York: J. C. Derby, 1847.

Portrait of General Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) in his Confederate uniform, by James H. Hummel, circa 1861. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.