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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 2038

"The Gun-Boat 'Carondelet' Running the Batteries at Island No. 10."


Line engraving from Admiral David Dixon Porter's "The Naval History of the Civil War" (1886), depicting the Carondelet steaming past Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, during the night of 4 April 1862. A coal barge was lashed to her port side for additional protection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 December 1999