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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 58724
"Destruction of the Confederate Ironclad 'Merrimack', Blown
Up by Her Commander, May 11th, 1862"
Line engraving, published in the "Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume I, page 248, depicting the explosion of CSS Virginia
(ex-USS Merrimack) off Craney Island, Virginia.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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