Photo #: NH 42218
CSS Virginia destroying USS Congress, 8 March 1862
Painting by Xanthus Smith, depicting Virginia at left,
firing into the Congress. The masts of the sunken USS
Cumberland are in the right background. Other Confederate
warships are visible in the distance, toward the left.
Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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