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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58799

"Destruction of Guns at the Confederate Arsenal, Beaufort, S.C., by Captain Amman, of the U.S. Gunboat 'Seneca.'"


Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 179.
It depicts the crew of USS Seneca, led by their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Daniel Ammen, destroying enemy ordnance during the capture of Beaufort in November 1861.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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3 April 2001