Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 where bonneted matrons ladled chowder

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

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drawn in the same year Lincoln's Proclamation turned bondsmen into soldiers and the war's moral ledger came due in ink

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Capture of Fort Henry by US Gun Boats - Vintage Maritime Print Size:36x24 where bonneted matrons ladled chowderCapture 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