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

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

A Jacksonian Democrat's tenure rendered in the formal hand reserved for the upper chamber

issued the year of his death

and any space that honors the country's most consequential reckoning

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.