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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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23 June 2004