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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 58759
"Destruction of the 'Queen of the West' by Union Gun-Boats"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863,
depicting CSS Queen of the West being destroyed in Grand
Lake, Louisiana, during an attack by USS Estrella (extreme
left), Calhoun (extreme right) and Arizona (second
from right), 14 April 1863.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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