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A Queen City in greeting-card script

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Armory of First City Troop

The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted

Admiral Farragut's Fleet at Port Hudson 1863 - Vintage Maritime Print celestial wall art Horticultural Hall World's Columbian ExpositionAdmiral Farragut's Fleet at Port Hudson 1863 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and Mississippi current, rendering the night Farragut lashed the Hartford to the Albatross and ran the Confederate batteries under a sky bright with mortar fire. The scene catches that perilous March passage when only two Union vessels cleared the bluffs, the rest beaten back into the river's dark bend. About the Source Bella Frye sources