Photo #: NH 59003-KN (Color)
"Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for Government
Service on the Mississippi"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861.
This example has been hand-tinted in water colors.
The scene represents the conversion of the first "timber-clad"
gunboats for the Western Gunboat Flotilla, in mid-1861. These
ships were Conestoga, Lexington and Tyler,
two of which are depicted here.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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