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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 55576

USS Choctaw (1863-1866)


Crewmen on deck amidships, in 1863-65.
This view looks forward from in front of the pilothouse, with the starboard smokestack in the left background. The name "Choctaw" is visible on the cap ribbons of some of these men.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 575 pixels

Note:
This image has been published (most notably in Miller's "Photographic History of the Civil War", Volume 6, page 211, as representing the crew of USS Lafayette. Ship structure and cap ribbons prove conclusively that it shows crewmen on USS Choctaw.

 

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21 June 2000