Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame American Railroad Scene: Snowbound 1871

American Railroad Scene: Snowbound 1871 — a chromolithograph of iron halted by weather

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Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame American Railroad Scene: Snowbound 1871Bombardment of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi Vintage Maritime Print renders that long April siege of 1862 in full chromolithographic thunder Foote's ironclads and mortar rafts wreathed in cannon smoke as the Confederate stronghold in the river's great horseshoe bend buckles under Union fire. A scene drawn while the war was still being fought, every gunboat plume etched with the urgency of dispatch. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime