American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The street unfurls in the

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

Virginia arrives in lithographed views of Tidewater estuaries and Blue Ridge hollows

almost against orders

A documentary engraving of the thirty-hour shelling that ended masonry fortification forever — Union rifled cannon punching through walls the Confederates had thought unbreachable

and naval engagements as they happened

American Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid Frame Style:Canvas Wrap The street unfurls in theAmerican Privateer General Armstrong, Capt. Sam C. Reid a maritime portrait of the brig that bloodied a British squadron in Fayal harbor in 1814, and of the captain whose stubborn defense became one of the War of 1812's stranger legends, fought in neutral waters under a moonless Azorean sky. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical