Photo #: NH 45740
"The U.S. Steamer Mount Vernon Reconnoitreing the Unfinished
Rebel Batteries on Mathias Point, on the Virginia Bank of the
Potomac, Sixty Miles below Washington."
Line engraving published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper", 1861, depicting a scene on the foredeck of USS
Mount Vernon (later renamed Mount Washington) during
her operations on the Potomac River in mid-1861. Note the 32-pounder
smoothbore gun.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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