Many of the paintings depicting the battle tend to summarize the entirety of the two-day battle in one image, showing the destruction of Cumberland alongside the duel between ironclads.
Many of the paintings depicting the battle tend to summarize the entirety of the two-day battle in one image, showing the destruction of Cumberland alongside the duel between ironclads. The more realistic paintings show the two ironclads in pitched battle with the surrounding sailors and soldiers watching them in the middle of the water in what Craig Symonds compared to an "amphitheater" akin to the Roman Coliseum. 