Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The boy here is already

The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President 1865 arrives draped in the heavy black crepe of April

The Gentlemans Vice Bussert Tobacco Pipe Patent is a drawing from the long American romance with tobacco — when a pipe

the banner waves stars and stripes for a Union the candidates could no longer hold together — popular sovereignty stitched onto bunting as the country marched toward Sumter

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame The boy here is alreadyBattle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with cannon smoke and ironclad menace, where the Union's low slung cheesebox on a raft trades fire with the casemated Virginia across the brackish chop of Hampton Roads. The scene captures that strange March morning when wooden navies became obsolete and every shell, ricocheting off riveted plate, seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century.