Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print and the long shadow of

and the long shadow of a name about to be rewritten

a wound bled out before aides could staunch it

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

here corralled into the elliptical geometry of a Victorian orrery diagram

Destruction of the Rebel Merrimac Off Craney Island 1862 - Vintage Maritime Print mixology art print and the long shadow ofDestruction 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