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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 54095

USS Fern (1862-1865)


Halftone photograph of the tug Fern assisting a "city" class armored gunboat, on the Western Rivers during the Civil War.
The original image caption's identification of the ironclad as USS Benton is in error.

Courtesy of Frederick Way, Jr., October 1941.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 March 2000