Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 New Mexico Santa Fe arrives

New Mexico Santa Fe arrives in the soft ochres and adobe shadows of the high desert capital — lithographed views of the Palace of the Governors

walking-beam rocking above the hurricane deck like the pulse of the river itself

when more than thirty thousand Union prisoners were packed inside its log walls under a Georgia sun that kept no ledger of the dying

the great house of the Potomac standing in for the quieter chapter of a man whose name had already calcified into legend

by the end

Destruction of the Rebel Ram Arkansas by the USS Essex - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 New Mexico Santa Fe arrivesDestruction 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