TERRIFIC COMBAT BETWEEN THE "MONITOR" 2 GUNS & "MERRIMAC" 11 GUNS, IN HAMPTON ROADS MARCH 9TH 1862. IN WHICH THE LITTLE "MONITOR" WHIPPED THE "MERRIMAC" AND THE WHOLE "SCHOOL" OF REBEL STEAMERS.
New York: 152 Nassau Street, [1862]. Handcolored folio broadside, oblong 10" x 14." Lightly toned, a bit of foxing. Good+.
Currier & Ives published several lithographs of this "terrific combat." The Monitor, mostly undamaged, is in the foreground firing deadly rounds against a heavily damaged Merrimac. Black and white smoke fill the air. Steamships circle in the background.
Gale 6464. OCLC 51149639 [1- DLC], 48446403 [1- U VA], 1136525328 [1- AAS] as of September 2023. Item #37384
Price: $450.00