Photo #: NH 59061
"Commander Porter's Mortar Flotilla"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862,
depicting the mortar schooner flotilla commanded by David Dixon
Porter during the April 1862 attack on the forts below New Orleans.
Vessels shown are (from left to right): Westfield, Adolph
Hugel, Para, William Bacon, Oliver H. Lee,
C.P. Williams, Henry Janes, George Mangham,
Racer, Horace Beals, Sarah Bruen, Samuel
Rotan, John Griffith, Rachel Seaman, Maria
J. Carlton, Sidney C. Jones, T.A. Ward, Sea
Foam, Maria A. Wood, Octorara (Porter's flagship)
and Matthew Vassar.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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