Photo #: NH 42201
"The Confederate cruiser 'Sumter', Captain Semmes, leaving
New Orleans, June 18, 1861."
Line engraving by Evans, "from a sketch made at the time",
published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War",
Volume II, page 14.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51797
"The Sumter running the blockade of Pass a l' Outre, by
the enemy's ship Brooklyn, on the 30th June, 1861."
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, copied from
"Memoirs of Service Afloat", by Raphael Semmes.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 54479
"Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"
Lithograph by Netherclift, frontispiece of Volume I of "The
Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, etc.", by Commander
Raphael Semmes, CSN, et al, London, 1864. It depicts CSS Sumter
escaping from the Mississippi River past the blockading USS Brooklyn,
30 June 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42202
"The Confederate privateer steamer Sumter, taking in coal
at the Dutch island of Curacoa, in the Caribbean Sea."
Line engraving "from a photograph by S.J. Nathans",
published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper",
24 August 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59346
"The pirate 'Sumter' firing at the brig 'Joseph Parks',
of Boston. -- Sketched by one of the Crew of the 'Sumter'."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June
1862, page 65.
The American merchant ship Joseph Park was captured by
CSS Sumter off the northeast coast of South America on
25 September 1861 and burned three days later.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 91859-KN (Color)
"Capture by the Confederate war ship Sumter of
two Federal merchantmen. Captain Semmes"
Oil on hardboard, 18 7/8" x 12 7/16", bearing the above
title on its back. It is signed and dated on the front: "W.H.
Moody, 1877"; and on the back "W.H. Moody, 3/3/77".
The painting depicts Sumter flying what appears to be
an Argentine flag.
Courtesy of Nigel Burgess, 1981.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59352
"The Sumter running the Blockade of St. Pierre, Martinique,
by the enemy's ship 'Iroquois', on the 23d. Nov. 1861."
Lithograph by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore, Maryland, copied from
"Memoirs of Service Afloat", by Raphael Semmes.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59410
"The Sumter, Kearsarge and Tuscarora at Gibraltar"
Artwork published in "Service Afloat: or, the Remarkable
Career of the Confederate Cruisers Sumter and Alabama ...",
by Admiral Raphael Semmes, CSN, 1887.
It depicts the U.S. warships Tuscarora and Kearsarge
keeping watch on the Confederate cruiser Sumter, on 12
April 1862.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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