Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits A documentary engraving of the

A documentary engraving of the bloodiest single day in American memory

rendered with the formal restraint owed a man who had served as Navy Secretary before returning to the chamber's marble acoustics of nullification

when the Union's cheesebox-on-a-raft traded iron blows with the Confederate ram and rendered every wooden navy in the world obsolete by sundown

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge

Battle of Manila

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits A documentary engraving of theDestruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendering the Mississippi's most stubborn ironclad in her final, fiery moments off Baton Rouge in August 1862. The Essex stands close enough to feel the heat, her guns answering as the Arkansas blooms into smoke and ruin along the river's brown current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century