IMAGES FROM THE WAR WITH MEXICO

IMAGES FROM THE WAR WITH MEXICO Site admin: Kirk D. Lyons

Site to find, survey, classify, discuss and debate photographs from the War with Mexico 1846-48 using images in the public domain or images with permission of the owner or that constitute "fair use" under US Copyright Law.

Don Santiago: Hero or Villain?James Kirker—trader, Indian fighter, and frontiersman in Chihuahua, Texas, and New Mexico—...
09/01/2026

Don Santiago: Hero or Villain?
James Kirker—trader, Indian fighter, and frontiersman in Chihuahua, Texas, and New Mexico—was born near Belfast, Ireland, on December 2, 1793. Between 1839 and 1846, he signed contracts with the governors of the State of Chihuahua to fight against Apache, Comanche, and Navajo tribes.

09/01/2026
Uniform jacket of Sergeant Francis A. Wolff, who served in Company I, 1st Mississippi Regiment. Wolff was wounded in the...
09/01/2026

Uniform jacket of Sergeant Francis A. Wolff, who served in Company I, 1st Mississippi Regiment. Wolff was wounded in the battle of Monterrey, September 21, 1846. The jacket is on display in the museum of Mississippi History in Jackson.

08/30/2026

Probably Capt John McKnitt Sharp of Co A 1st Mississippi Regt ETW p225 ACM. Martha Sandweiss told me this cannot be Sharp because he was seriously wounded at Buena Vista and the 1st MS had left Saltillo before the itinerant photographer started taking photographs - based on a subsequent image - I think this is Sharp

Capt Douglas H Cooper 1st Mississippi Rifles
08/30/2026

Capt Douglas H Cooper 1st Mississippi Rifles

READ on then do the Widget: https://mstr.app/e6d47ff6-2546-4b4e-9052-bbfe62231a4fTHE EVIL PLAN TO STRANGLE SPEECH AND ER...
08/28/2026

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THE EVIL PLAN TO STRANGLE SPEECH AND ERASE A PEOPLE’S PAST

Imagine paying someone to attack you.You pay their bills. You help keep their doors open. Fix their roofs. Cover their electricity.But then they turn around and hand activists, school boards, city councils, and prosecutors a detailed action plan to bankrupt dissenters, silence your speech, tear down public memorials, and erase the history of the American South from courthouse lawns, school names, parks, and military posts.

That is what the Southern Poverty Law Center is up to. Its annual take is staggering: well over $100 million a year in tax-deductible contributions and investment income, with net assets reported in the hundreds of millions—sometimes approaching $800 million or more—while it operates as a 501(c)(3) charity subsidized by the tax code.

After the 2015 Charleston church massacre, SPLC launched Whose Heritage?—a national catalog, map, and playbook of Confederate monuments, school names, streets, parks, holidays, and other public symbols. Edition after edition has not merely “studied” those symbols. It has told communities how to permanently erase them from the public landscape and how to pressure the officials who control them.

Because Congress and the IRS leave this machine untouched, deductible dollars keep pouring into SPLC’s endowment. Even as its Intelligence Project and action guides counsel local governments how to crush memorials, rename schools, and treat Southern heritage as hate.

Tell Congress, with as many emails as possible: It must STOP shielding and subsidizing this hate campaign NOW! Lawmakers need to demand that the DOJ & IRS to revoke SPLC's tax exempt status.

EMAIL/WIDGET CONGRESS NOW

WHAT’S IN THE PLAYBOOK?

"SPLC’s Whose Heritage?" reports and Community Action Guide are not a history lesson. They are an organizing manual. They list “practical” steps to take down monuments and rename public places, including:
Map every Confederate symbol in a community—statues, schools, streets, parks, courthouse memorials—and identify the exact government body that can remove it.

Contact mayors, city councils, school boards, county commissions, and legislators and demand removal or renaming.
Treat memorials as “symbols of hate” and “Lost Cause propaganda,” not as veterans’ monuments or contested public history.
Counter and dismiss objections that removal erases history, violates local majorities, or belongs to the people who live there.
Use public-safety and “harm” arguments to bypass or punch through state monument-protection laws.
Fund and coach local activist groups with grants so they can run media campaigns and pressure campaigns against holdout towns.

Keep a live national map so activists can find the next target and the next official to call.

see SPLCenter.org

This was not a leaflet handed out only to campus radicals. It was placed in the hands of officials with real power: school boards that can strip a name overnight, city councils that can crane a statue off a square, and state lawmakers who can be lobbied to repeal heritage-protection statutes. SPLC itself boasts hundreds of symbols removed, renamed, or relocated since 2015, and it still tracks more than 2,000 Confederate symbols standing, including hundreds of monuments.

These are people and institutions with investigators, lawyers, grant money, and media megaphones. In many places they can drag citizens, heritage groups, and small towns into expensive legal and political battles simply by opening a campaign, filing a complaint, or branding opponents as defenders of “white supremacy.”

And now that machinery is aimed at public memory itself—using a playbook written under roofs and paid for with tax-advantaged wealth that ordinary Americans help underwrite every April 15.This is why Congress must act. Tell Congress with as many faxes as possible to stop bankrolling—through tax exemption, deductibility, and official partnership—SPLC’s war on Southern history, veterans’ memorials, and the right of communities to keep their own past.This battle goes to the heart of why Liberty Counsel Action fights daily in Washington.

The monument-removal industry has lawyers, lobbyists, grant programs, maps, and powerful allies working every day to push its erasure agenda deeper into government.

But with your help, we expose what is happening, put the facts into your hands, and take your voice directly to the lawmakers who can stop it.Yet we can’t do it alone.

Will you become a monthly partner with a recurring gift so we can keep fighting month after month?Or make a single gift today to help us expose SPLC’s "Whose Heritage?" schemes, mobilize Americans, and press Congress to stop sending privileged tax treatment and official credibility to organizations that work to wipe history from the public square and crush liberty.

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Mexican-American War 1846 - 1848Bill Schultz  · ·Colonel Ricard Delefield Superintendent West Point 1838-1845Half plate ...
08/28/2026

Mexican-American War 1846 - 1848
Bill Schultz
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Colonel Ricard Delefield Superintendent West Point 1838-1845
Half plate daguerreotype in full dress uniform US Army Corps of Engineers.
Superintendent of West Point during the pivotal years before the Mexican War when classmates and future officers served together in Mexico before the American Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Delafield
Dr William Schultz Collection

Tammy Townsend Coyle Callahan collection  ·An 1849 daguerreotype photograph of an American pioneer named Dr. MacBeth
08/26/2026

Tammy Townsend Coyle Callahan collection
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An 1849 daguerreotype photograph of an American pioneer named Dr. MacBeth

COL JAMES S Bankhead 2nd US ARTILLERY  Jn Plumbe1846 Or ichabod Crane
08/19/2026

COL JAMES S Bankhead 2nd US ARTILLERY Jn Plumbe1846 Or ichabod Crane

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