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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58756

Bombardment of Sewell's Point, Virginia, 8 May 1862


Print published in Fiveash, "Virginia-Monitor Engagement", Norfolk, Virginia, 1907. It depicts USS Monitor (at left) accompanied by the Federal warships Naugatuck, Dacotah, Seminole and Susquehanna (listed in no particular order, and depicted rather inaccurately), firing on the Confederate batteries at Sewell's point, near Norfolk.

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4 April 2001