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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