Bombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany 11th 1863 Size:24x18 1861-1897 — a portrait of

1861-1897 — a portrait of the Mississippi minister who

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this chromolithograph reanimates the Genoese mariner for a Chicago crowd hungry to crown four centuries of conquest with white-plaster pavilions and electric light — the Admiral repackaged as the patron saint of American arrival

Bombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany 11th 1863 Size:24x18 1861-1897 — a portrait ofBombardment and Capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Ark. Jany 11th 1863 renders McClernand's gunboats wheeling on the Arkansas River in a haze of mortar smoke, the earthwork redoubt drawn with the cartographer's patience for a fight that lasted barely a winter afternoon. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the