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Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 A tableau where the skylineCapture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of February 1862, when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned up the Tennessee River and shelled the half drowned Confederate works into submission before Grant's infantry ever arrived. The scene crackles with muzzle flash and river smoke, the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory. About the Source