Photo #: NH 42394
"Capture of the Confederate ram Tennessee"
Artwork by J.O. Davidson, depicting the surrender of CSS Tennessee
at the conclusion of the Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864.
U.S. Navy ships depicted include monitor Winnebago and
sloop Monongahela, in the left background; sloop Ossipee
"in collision with Tennessee", in center; monitor
Chickasaw "lying across the stern of Tennessee",
in right foreground; gunboat Itaska, in right distance;
and flagship Hartford further to the right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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