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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 55237

Confederate ironclads Chicora and Palmetto State


Nineteenth-Century photograph of a painting by Conrad Wise Chapman, depicting the ships in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, during the Civil War.
Note the spar torpedo fitted to the ironclad in the right center.

The original painting is in the Confederate Museum, Richmond, Virginia.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 520 pixels

 

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2 July 2001