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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 54479
"Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"
Lithograph by Netherclift, frontispiece of Volume I of "The
Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, etc.", by Commander
Raphael Semmes, CSN, et al, London, 1864. It depicts CSS Sumter
escaping from the Mississippi River past the blockading USS Brooklyn,
30 June 1861.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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