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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 51303

USS Lehigh
(1863-1904)

View on the monitor's deck, probably taken while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, in 1864-65.
Probably photographed by the Matthew Brady organization.
Note her turret, with a XV" Dahlgren smoothbore in one gun port (center) and a smaller gun (probably an 8" Parrott rifle) in the other.
Also note armored pilothouse atop the turret, armor plates and turret base ring added to the ship on the basis of combat experience, the 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzer mounted on an iron field carriage, and the bitt in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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9 October 2001