Naval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright - Vintage Maritime Print outdoor home decor The Carriers of the Press

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Naval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright - Vintage Maritime Print outdoor home decor The Carriers of the PressNaval Victory on the Mississippi River Near Fort Wright Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph thick with gunsmoke and river haze, capturing that early 1862 morning when Foote's ironclads exchanged fire with Confederate gunboats above the bluffs of Fort Wright. The lithographer staged it like an opera: paddle wheels churning brown water, broadsides flashing in tight chromatic registers, and the Tennessee shore looming as a witness to the Union's