Photo #: NH 42240
Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865
19th-Century painting, by an unidentified artist, depicting U.S. Navy ironclads bombarding Fort Fisher during one of the two assaults that ended in its capture. Twin-turret monitor in the center foreground is Monadnock. Large broadside ironclad beyond is New Ironsides. The three single-turret monitors are Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus.
Presented by Albert Rosenthal, January 1935.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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