Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Lambeau_Field_Wall 1863 — the moment rendered

1863 — the moment rendered in ink before the field turned to slaughter

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Admiral George Dewey USN 1899

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Lambeau_Field_Wall 1863 — the moment renderedBattle 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.