Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print and real-photo glimpses of mill

and real-photo glimpses of mill stacks lit orange against the night shift

a wound bled out before aides could staunch it

on the fiction of mutual consent

where the ironclads of a dozen nations rode at anchor off Old Point Comfort in salute to the New World's four hundredth year

Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print and real-photo glimpses of millDestruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 Vintage Maritime Print a Civil War lithograph rendered in the smoke and spectacle tradition, capturing the moment the ironclad CSS Virginia the Confederacy's reborn Merrimac was scuttled and set ablaze off Craney Island rather than surrendered to Union hands. The print stages her death throes against the Elizabeth River, fire blooming from her casemate like a final, defiant signal flare. About