Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits rendered in the dignified line

rendered in the dignified line of an antebellum engraving — epaulets

A documentary engraving of the bloodiest single day in American memory

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

Chicago in Flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge

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Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits rendered in the dignified lineDestruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendering the Mississippi's most stubborn ironclad in her final, fiery moments off Baton Rouge in August 1862. The Essex stands close enough to feel the heat, her guns answering as the Arkansas blooms into smoke and ruin along the river's brown current. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations from American archives and 19th century