Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame looking down upon the orderly

looking down upon the orderly canvas city of a Pine Tree State regiment that mustered in 1861 and would grind through the Peninsula and the Wilderness before its colors came home

the old sandstone dome still squat above a chamber where Clay

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and stars by which a soldier knew his corps and a corps knew its dead

mid-quarrel with Mexico

Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound - Vintage Maritime Print Frame Style:Bourbon Frame looking down upon the orderlyConflagration of the Steamboat Lexington on Long Island Sound Vintage Maritime Print a chromolithograph of the January 1840 disaster, when fire swept the cotton laden decks and pitched 139 souls into the icy Sound. The scene renders the Lexington as a floating pyre against black water, lifeboats foundering in the middle distance a Currier print that made the catastrophe a household horror. About the Source Bella Frye sources maritime illustrations