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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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23 June 2004