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Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 Frame Style:Ebony Frame The Sunken Chamber Baltimore CaissonMajor General Zachary Taylor 1848 the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency, a campaign portrait trading on gunpowder credentials and the Manifest Destiny swagger of a republic that had just swallowed half a continent. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical