Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President

Abraham Lincoln the Martyr President 1865 arrives draped in the heavy black crepe of April

The boy here is already being shaped into the martyr to come

Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia 1838 — a portrait of the man whose hand guided Cherokee removal into law

rendered with the parlor decorum of a White House trying to look respectable again

each insisting it is the true seat of the city

Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac at Hampton Roads 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Verdigris Frame Abraham Lincoln the Martyr PresidentBattle 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.