Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The schematic charts the caisson

The schematic charts the caisson pier

rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again

The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come

A commemorative engraving of the obelisk completed at last after decades of stalled subscription and civil war

Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia 1838 — a portrait of the man whose hand guided Cherokee removal into law

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The schematic charts the caissonBattle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cannon smoke and ironclad menace, where the Union's low slung cheesebox on a raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads. The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell, ricocheting off riveted plate, seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century.