Photo #: NH 42396
"Battle of Mobile Bay ... Passing Fort Morgan and the Torpedoes"
Print after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, 1886, depicting the
Union and Confederate squadrons at the moment that USS Tecumseh
sank after striking a mine ("torpedo").
Confederate ships (left foreground) are Morgan, Gaines
and Tennessee. Union monitors visible astern of Tecumseh
are Manhattan and Winnebago. USS Brooklyn
is leading the outer line of Union warships, immediately followed
by USS Hartford.
Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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