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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42217

Burning of CSS Virginia, 11 May 1862


Painting after a sketch made on the scene by Colonel Samuel Wetherill, 11th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, depicting the destruction of Virginia by her crew, off Craney Island, Virginia.

Presented by Mrs. M.K.W. Davis, Colonel Wetherill's daughter, 15 June 1939.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 May 2001