Com. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 gulf coast art April 24th 1862 — a

April 24th 1862 — a documentary engraving of the night the Union Navy ran the gauntlet beneath Forts Jackson and St

mission arcades cooling in adobe shadow

seemed to announce the arrival of a colder century

where Maryland's uneasy loyalty was garrisoned in tent rows and quartermaster's ledgers

rendered at the dawn of his Oregon crusade — a portrait steeped in the chamber's expansionist fever

Com. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 gulf coast art April 24th 1862 — aCom. Farragut's Fleet Passing the Forts on the Mississippi, April 24th 1862 a documentary engraving of the night the Union Navy ran the gauntlet beneath Forts Jackson and St. Philip, mortar flash and powder smoke rendered in the hard line work of a press eager to deliver New Orleans to the Northern reader. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional