Photo #: NH 59059
"Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar
Fleet entering the Mississippi River"
Line engraving based on a sketch by an officer of USS Mississippi,
published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the
scene at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi, circa 7 April
1862.
Features identified in the engraving's title lines include (from
left to right): Light-house on Southwest Pass; USS Colorado
(in left foreground); USS Pensacola on the bar; USS Westfield
(seen nearly stern-on); Porter's mortar fleet, heading up the
river; USS Mississippi on the bar; USS Harriet Lane
(side-wheel steamer at the rear of the mortar fleet); USS Connecticut
(in right foreground); USS Clifton; town of Banona.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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