Battle of Port Hudson 1887 framed jamaica map The Vassos Pen Patent —

The Vassos Pen Patent — a Study in Industrial Elegance is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

and the Confederate hold on the lower South finally giving way to Grant's patient

epaulets and sash arranged with the theatrical confidence of an officer whose march on Chapultepec was already being engraved into the republic's expansionist mythology

when the Union's cheesebox-on-a-raft traded iron blows with the Confederate ram and rendered every wooden navy in the world obsolete by sundown

a floating palace of antebellum ambition before rail would quietly render her obsolete

Battle of Port Hudson 1887 framed jamaica map The Vassos Pen Patent —Battle of Port Hudson 1887 a retrospective rendering of the Mississippi siege engraved more than two decades after the guns fell silent, when veterans had begun the slow labor of fixing 1863's longest Confederate holdout into the marble of national memory. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic