Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits rendered with the formal restraint

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

Stephenson 1884 — a commemorative portrait of the Illinois army surgeon who founded the Grand Army of the Republic

rendered in the dignified line of an antebellum engraving — epaulets

where Manifest Destiny found its general and the Mexican War found its first laurels along a contested southern river

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits rendered with the formal restraintDestruction 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