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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 54286

USS Essex (1861-1865)


Moored at Memphis, Tennessee, with her awnings up, during the Civil War.
Note mortar boats alongside Essex, also with awnings deployed, and small building atop the bluff, toward the left, marked "Pittsburgh COAL", with the Pittsburgh Coal Company's castle symbol between "CO" and "AL".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 June 2000