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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 58889

"The Gun-boat 'Carondelet' Running the Rebel Batteries at Island No. 10"


Line engraving, based on a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting USS Carondelet passing the Confederate fortress at Island Number Ten, Mississippi River, during the night of 4 April 1862. She was accompanied by a coal barge, lashed to her port side to provide additional protection.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 December 1999