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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42245

Battle of New Orleans -- Farragut Passing Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip, 24 April 1862


Lithograph by C. Parsons, depicting the Federal warships steaming upstream toward New Orleans, past the Confederate fortifications and ships. CSS Manassas is shown in the left center. Farragut's flagship, USS Hartford is in the right center, with a fire raft alongside.

Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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6 September 2001