Photo #: NH 59105
"'Bache's Quaker' Driving the 'Queen of the West,' and Causing
the Rebels to Blow Up the 'Indianola'."
Line engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published
in "Harper's Weekly", 1863, depicting the 25 February
1863 operation in which a dummy ironclad (left) was floated down
the Mississippi River by the U.S. Navy, causing the Confederates
to destroy the captured ironclad USS Indianola. CSS Queen
of the West is depicted at the right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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