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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