Price: $495.00
SKU: 101467
PUBLISHER: Published by W.F. Mc Laughlin & Co.
MEDIUM: Chromolithograph.
DATE: c.1885
EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 x 16" (31.4 x 40.7 cm)
DESCRIPTION: Printed by Cosack & Co. Buffalo & Chicago.<br><br> A dramatic image of the battle. Both ships are shown with battle damage, smoke, shell fragments flying about and exploding ordnance.<br><br> The Battle of Hampton Roads or battle between the U.S.S. Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex. USS Merrimac) was the most noted and possibly the most important naval battle of the American Civil War. It was the first battle between ironclad warships. The battle took place over two days, March 8–9, 1862. The first day the CSS Virginia ruled the seas as the USS Monitor had not yet arrived on the scene. The Virginia destroyed two major seagoing naval ships, The USS Congress and USS Cumberland and drove the USS Minnesota aground. Falling tides and nightfall forces the Confederates to break off the attack until the next day. The evening the USS Monitor arrived and took up station to protect the Minnesota. The next morning the Virginia arrived back on the scene to finish off the Minnesota and found the USS Monitor awaiting her. The battle between these two vessels went on for hours and they fought, shot from each side ricocheting off of the other. In the end each side claimed victory.<br><br> This battle changed naval designs overnight, obsolete were the large ships of the line with multiple gun decks. The age of armor plate and turreted ships had began.Vbr><br> The publisher of this print, W.F. Mc Laughlin & Co. was a major supplier of Coffee in Chicago.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Fair to good condition. Small loss of paper, just below the title. Short tear within image, just below the monitor,
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