DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 574
USS Monitor (1862)
Crewmen relaxing on deck, while the ship was in the James River,
Virginia, on 9 July 1862. View looks forward on the starboard
side, with the gun turret beyond.
Note men playing checkers at right. Another man is reading a
newspaper by the starboard smokestack.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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