Photo #: NH 57882
Rear Admiral David G. Farragut, Commanding the West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, (right center)
and
Captain Percival Drayton, Farragut's Fleet Captain, (left
center)
Standing by the steering wheel of the squadron flagship, USS
Hartford, in Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864.
Note Sailor on watch, with telescope, on the quarter deck; muskets
in a rack on the cabin bulkhead; and breeches of some of the
ship's starboard battery of IX" Dahlgren shell guns at left.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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