Photo #: NH 52029
USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)
"The Gun that Sunk the 'Alabama'...". Halftone reproduction
of a photograph of Kearsarge's after XI-inch Dahlgren
pivot gun, with ship's officers and the quarter deck beyond,
circa the 1870s.
This gun has an iron pivot mounting, of a type adopted after
the Civil War, and may or may not be the same weapon that was
on board the ship at the time of her battle with CSS Alabama
in June 1864.
Copied from Francis T. Miller's "The Photographic History
of the Civil War, Volume VI: The Navies", page 303.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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