Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits Battle of Manila

Battle of Manila

A documentary engraving of the bloodiest single day in American memory

Major General Zachary Taylor 1848 — the hero of Buena Vista rendered in his Mexican War epaulets the same year the Whigs would draft him for the presidency

rendered in the dignified line of an antebellum engraving — epaulets

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print framed spirits Battle of ManilaDestruction 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