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Developed by David Wechsler and individually administered
Box measures 8" x5 1/8" x 4 5/8"
This little vase reminds me of a tree trunk
There is an incised vine pattern running up the sides of the black handle
Damn the Torpedoes, Ft. Morgan, Civil War Related Folk Art Carving Fat Lava era All that saidA curious one! The origin of the phrase "Damn the Torpedoes" comes from the Battle of Mobile Bay in Alabama, August 5, 1864, during the Civil War, in which a Union fleet commanded by Admiral David Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, overtook Ft. Morgan, which guarded Mobile Bay, and attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Admiral Franklin Buchanan. Farragut's order of "Damn the torpedoes! Four bells. Captain Drayton, go ahead! Jouett,