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Photo #: NH 55172

USS Cairo (1862)


Sketch of the ship's wreck, entitled "Cairo Submerged", probably depicting the scene immediately after she was sunk by a Confederate mine in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, on 12 December 1862. Note men sitting on projecting timbers and swimming in the water nearby.

Courtesy of Mrs. A. Hopkins, 1927.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 April 2000