Photo #: NH 51962
Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, Commanding the West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, (left)
and
Captain Percival Drayton, Farragut's Fleet Captain, (center)
Standing by the wheels of a Dahlgren howitzer on the quarter
deck of the squadron flagship, USS Hartford, circa 1864.
Note the iron carriage for this howitzer, belaying pins at right
and details of the ship's rigging.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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