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His excellent seamanship impressed his pirate mates and when the captain was killed, Roberts was elected the new captain.  He wrote; “It is better to be a commander than a common man since I have dipped my hands in the muddy water and must be a pirate.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd what a pirate captain he became: ruthless demanding and successful.  His single ship grew to four ships carrying over 500 men.  Other pirates preferred fast, small ships and worked by stealth.  Robert’s small but heavily armed squad allowed him a bold devil-may-care style.  His pirate flag (yes, most of the later pirates flew the Jolly Roger or something similar) consisted of his figure standing on two skulls, identified as ABH and AMH; “a Barbadian’s Head” and “a Martinican’s Head” in contempt for the Governors of those lands who had attempted to vanquish him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe painting centers on his flagship, a 42 gun French warship he re-named the Royal Fortune (in his short career Roberts had three different ships named Royal Fortune).  It shows a lower profile than normal as it was apparently his preference to have as flush a deck as possible for easier boarding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoberts met his maker off the Coast of Africa, a dramatic battle with a Royal Navy Ship in 1722\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Thomas Designs","offers":[{"title":"Paper Giclee: Open Edition - Overall 13\" x 16\" Image 11\" x 14\"","offer_id":46696821981333,"sku":"904-1316-P-OP","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas Giclee: Open Edition - 12\" x 15\"","offer_id":46696822014101,"sku":"904-1215-C-OP","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paper Giclee: Open Edition S\/N 200 - Overall 24\" x 28\" Image 20\" x 24\"","offer_id":46696822046869,"sku":"904-2024-P-SN200","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paper Giclee: Open Edition AP 20 - Overall 24\" x 28\" Image 20\" x 24\"","offer_id":46696822079637,"sku":"904-2024-P-AP20","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas Giclee: Limited Edition S\/N 300 - 20\" x 24\"","offer_id":46696822112405,"sku":"904-2024-C-SN300","price":395.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas Giclee: Limited Edition AP 30 - 20\" x 24\"","offer_id":46696822145173,"sku":"904-2024-C-AP30","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas Giclee: Limited Edition S\/N 300 - 30\" x 36\"","offer_id":46696822177941,"sku":"904-3036-C-SN300","price":595.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas Giclee: Limited Edition AP 30 - 30\" x 36\"","offer_id":46696822210709,"sku":"904-3036-C-AP30","price":695.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/7356\/4821\/files\/Black-Barts-Fleet.jpg?v=1764860982"},{"product_id":"an-unfinished-fort","title":"Wall Art: Fort Henry | An Unfinished Fort","description":"\u003cp\u003eMounds of earth atop this high bluff are the remains of Confederate Fort Heiman. It’s commanding view of the Tennessee River made it ideal to support the low-lying, flood-prone Fort Henry across the river. Confederate Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, then the commanding officer at both Fort Henry and Donelson, ordered it built. Slave labor from Alabama and Mississippi did most of the work. The new fort–named after Col. Adolphus Heiman of the 10th Tennessee Regiment, who commanded the 1,100 troops at the fort and oversaw it’s construction–was still unfinished when Union Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant launched is offensive in February 1862. On February 4, realizing he probably could not have prevented the destruction or capture of Fort Henry, Gen. Tilghman moved the Fort Heiman garrison back to Fort Henry to supplement that fort’s defenses. Fort Heiman was subsequently occupied by Union troops from Brig. Gen. C.F. Smith’s division and later Col. 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These earthworks are all that remain of the hastily constructed earthen fort that now lies beneath the waters of Kentucky Lake. At noon on February 6, 1862, Union Flag Officer Andrew H. Foote's flotilla of four ironclad and three timber clad gunboats steamed upriver (from your right) and began firing into Fort Henry. This, the initial battle in Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grants campaign to open the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers to Union forces, was the first time American ironclad vessels were used in combat. With the fort partly inundated by Tennessee River floodwaters, its commander, Brig. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, knew Fort Henry could not be held. Keeping 100 artillerymen, he sent the rest of his forces (about 2,500 men) to Fort Donelson, 12 miles away on the Cumberland River. Tilghman and his gunners gamely returned the gunboats fire, but were severely outgunned. At 1:45p.m., with only four cannon still operating, Tilghman surrendered to Foote. The Confederates had suffered five killed and 11 wounded; the Union sailors lost 11 killed and 31 wounded. Grant and Brig. Gen. John A. McClernands troops, much to the navy's delight, arrived on the scene only after the fort had been surrendered. February 6, 1862 noon. Where is Fort Henry? The original site of Fort Henry is completely submerged beneath Kentucky Lake. The buoy in the middle of the channel (upriver and slightly to your left) marks its approximate location. Height Disadvantage: With the fort at or below water level, Fort Henry's cannon could not be positioned like those at Fort Donelson to shoot down onto the ironclads vulnerable decks. 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Late in the afternoon of March 7, the outnumbered Federals were outflanked and forced to retreat from the Elkhorn Tavern area. As a last defiant measure, the 3rd Iowa battery managed to fire rounds of canister point blank into the charging 1st Missouri Confederate before they swept the guns capturing 2 and 1 gun getting away. The jubilant Missourians found one of the outbuildings at the tavern full of foodstuffs and these starved warriors helped themselves to crackers, oysters, cheese and other eatables. It took some time for the officers to get their men formed back up to press their attack. This was the high point of the battle for the Confederate Army of the West. For about two hours, we stood in a tempest three of our ammunition chests were blown up, and several men burned. I believe every man at the guns had made up his mind to die there, for it did not seem possible any of us could get out alive. 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Each image was also used on the wayside exhibits that are along the historic sites within the park. This image is available as a paper or canvas reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver 23,000 soldiers fought at Pea Ridge on March 7 and 8, 1862. Many of these soldiers were from small towns and had never traveled more than a few dozen miles from home before they joined the army. They were farmers, merchants, teachers, mechanics, lawyers, and countless other occupations before enlisting as volunteer soldiers. Many joined for patriotic reasons, to preserve the embattled Union, or to defend their homes, while others sought to escape the boredom of life in a small town. Some went with heads filled with dreams of glory, while others did not want to be considered cowards. 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While forming this line we were surprised with a precipitate retreat of cavalry, but my men stood like veterans. 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There Shelby rallied his command and faced the combined forces of Curtis and Pleasonton. 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The center of the Confederate battle line was occupied by a four-gun battery on the Ft. Scott Road with Marmadukes division deployed to the right and Fagans division to the left. The painting depicts the Union attack at the center of the Confederate battle line. Elements of the 4th Iowa and 10th Missouri Cavalry strike the center of the line and turn the right flank of Marmadukes division. Most of the Confederates are armed with single shot infantry muskets and shotguns, which quickly become clubs, as they cannot be reloaded on horseback. Many of the weapons are discarded as the troopers become dismounted and attempt to cross the creek safely. The Union combat veterans are better armed and equipped. The 4th Iowa and 2nd New Jersey are armed with sabers; revolvers and seven- shot Spencer repeating carbines. The remainder of the Union troops is armed with a variety of breech loading carbines and revolvers. Philips brigade consisted of the partisan guerrilla warfare that raged throughout Missouri and eastern Kansas during the entire Civil War. To compound the confusion of the battle, many of the Confederates were wearing parts of captured Union uniforms. Several Confederate artillerymen attempted to save their guns by pulling them back towards Mine Creek because they could not retrieve their horses to limber the guns and move them to the rear. 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The attack started well and by 9 a.m., despite heavy resistance, the Confederates had pushed McClernand's troops back along the Wynn Ferry Road and cleared the way for the Confederates to escape by way of Forge Road. Seventy percent of Union casualties occurred during these three hours of fighting. Here, too, Union troops in the West first heard the famous rebel yell. The success of this phase of the attack was due largely to the leadership of Pillow's second-in-command, Bushrod R. Johnson, and a flanking assault by Confederate cavalry under Forrest. The brigades of Cols. Richard Oglesby and John McArthur were hardest hit, but withdrew in an orderly manner despite having nearly exhausted their ammunition. Brigadier General Bushrod Johnson   Colonel Richard Oglesby  Colonel John McArthur. 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The Battle began at 7:00am on October 13 when Shelby met Lazear's skirmishers along the Marshall-Arrow Rock Rd., east of the bridge on Salt Fork Creek. Shelby had not expected Marshall to be occupied. A rumor spread that the force Shelby now confronted was that of Brig. Gen. Thomas Ewing. (Shelby would not learn the truth until after the Civil War that the men before Marshall were Brown's, not Ewings. Shelby enjoyed early success against Lazear, pushing him west to the edge of Marshall. There Lazear's men rallied and drove Shelby back down the Marshall-Arrow Rock Rd. For the next three hours Shelby made several attacks along Lazear's line, but Lazear held firm. At 8:30am Brown appeared with his remaining force at Salt Fork Creek. Shelby had assigned Maj. D. Shanks battalion to stop Brown. Shelby hoped to defeat Ewing in his front, then turn against Brown. As the fight wore on, Brown worried Shelby might escape to the west. He subsequently sent an additional 600 men and two guns on to Marshall, under Col. John F. Philips. Shelby had already planned for his exit by constructing a bridge across a ditch to the north so his wagons and guns could pass. When news arrived that Shanks was falling back from Salt Fork Creek, he knew he must force his way out or risk capture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE PAINTING: Andy Thomas has presented us with a study of the most dramatic event of the fight Shelby's breakout! The view is to the southeast with Thorps Scouts leading Elliots Battalion across the cornfield. Shelbys column extends back along the spur of the Marshall-Miami road (near modern day Lincoln Ave.) and is the road visible in the background. Stragglers of various units are to the left of the road. The Marshall-Arrow Rock road, not visible, followed the crest of the ridge.To the f ar right, the 4th Mo. Militia Cavalry can be seen at the beginning of its charge. 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Around 10:30 am another courier arrived this time from the Elkhorn Tavern warning Curtis that a large body of confederates was on the Telegraph Road directly north of the tavern. Curtis then sent Colonel Eugene Carr with Colonel Grenville Dodges brigade north to the Elkhorn Tavern to reinforce the 24th Missouri that was stationed north of the tavern. Curtis believed these confederate troops to be nothing more than a confederate feint to lure him out of his strong position. Confident the main attack would occur against his troops at Little Sugar Creek, Curtis did not realize that the confederates north of the tavern were the advance of Van Dorns army and the troops near Twelve Corner Church were those belonging to Confederate Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch. Within the hour, both of these Federal brigades would be fighting toe to toe with Van Dorn’s entire army of the West. How had the enemy reached our rear, had we not worked all night to receive them with our artillery as they approached our front? They certainly did not relish the warm reception and had frustrated all our plans. 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The Confederates who charged out of the cedars into this field would have seen what seemed to them to be an endless wall of blue coats, rallied and reinforced along the road ahead. For the Federals, the long hours of chaos and retreat at last came to an end here at the edge of this cotton field. This western army of the United States ended the year 1862 badly battered, but still full of fight. Many of my Regiment got within 60 yards of the enemy guns, but were compelled to give back for want of support. It seemed the Commanders expected our Brigade and the Texas Brigade that fought beside us to rout the entire Federal army at the odds of 10 to 1! the enemy Batteries seemed to have no end either way My Regiment lost 119 killed, wounded or missing. 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He was unaware that he was riding towards two companies of the 36th Illinois Infantry posted near these woods. Perfectly silhouetted against a grey sky, a crash of musketry erupted and McCulloch tumbled from his horse, a bullet striking his heart. McIntosh was informed of McCulloch’s death and moved to press the attack as planned. Forgetting that he was now in overall command, McIntosh would move to the front of his old regiment and lead them through the woods. Minutes after McCullochs death, McIntosh would meet an identical death also at the hands of 36th Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHebert, hearing these shots, thought the general attack had begun and began what would be the most successful attack of the day. 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