Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 rendered in the year he

rendered in the year he resigned his Senate seat to chase the presidency that would never quite be his

Each plate burns at the seam where heliography met natural theology — the firmament as furnace

A tableau where the skyline conspires in geometry

where bonneted matrons ladled chowder beside spinning wheels to raise dollars for the Sanitary Commission — Puritan nostalgia conscripted into the bloody arithmetic of feeding and bandaging the Union army

issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months — the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read

Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 rendered in the year heCapture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of February 1862, when Foote's ironclad flotilla churned up the Tennessee River and shelled the half drowned Confederate works into submission before Grant's infantry ever arrived. The scene crackles with muzzle flash and river smoke, the gunboats arrayed in a deliberate crescent that turned a muddy backwater into the Union's first great western victory. About the Source