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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 61669

USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


Ship's officers pose on deck, at Cherbourg, France, soon after her 19 June 1864 victory over CSS Alabama.
Her Commanding Officer, Captain John A. Winslow, is 3rd from left, wearing a uniform of the 1862 pattern. Other officers are generally dressed in uniforms of 1863-64 types.
View looks aft on the port side. At left is Kearsarge's after XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, with its training tracks on the deck alongside.
Those present are identified in Photo # NH 61669 (complete caption).

The original glass negative is held by the Library of Congress.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 July 2000