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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.

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6 November 2001