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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.
Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 420 pixels
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