DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 59065
"Fire-raft Sent Down by the Rebels, April 17"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862,
depicting USS Clifton playing a fire hose on the Confederate
fire raft, as it drifted past Union ships on the lower Mississippi
River on 17 April 1862.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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