2-888-126 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late General Taylor, President of the United States, 1850. '"Old Zack," as he was called, was about 5ft. 9in. or 10 in. in height, and remarkable for the shortness of his legs in proportion to his body: he was stout, though nor corpulent, and presented a straight, vigorous, and muscular figure. At the head of a troop of horse, winding down a hill near Mount Morales, he is pourtrayed as "a plain-looking gentleman, mounted upon a brown horse...dressed in a brown-olive loose frock-coat...From under the frock appears the scabbard of a sword; he has the eye of a hawk, and every lineament of his countenance is expressive of honesty, and a calm, determined mind. The plain-looking gentleman is General Zachary Taylor, who, with his military family, and a squadron of dragoons as an escort, is on his way to the front".' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.