Naval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright - Vintage Maritime Print outdoor home decor Iowa's War Governor

Iowa's War Governor

Battle of Buena Vista 19th Century — a lithograph of Taylor's improbable February stand against Santa Anna in the Mexican mountains

A border-state commander rendered in the early ink of the war

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but the politics behind it were pure cider-barrel theater

Naval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright - Vintage Maritime Print outdoor home decor Iowa's War GovernorNaval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and river haze, capturing that early 1862 morning when Foote's ironclads exchanged fire with Confederate gunboats above the bluffs of Fort Wright. The lithographer staged it like an opera: paddle wheels churning brown water, broadsides flashing in tight chromatic registers, and the Tennessee shore looming as a witness to the Union's