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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 59162
"The Steamship 'Sassacus' Ramming The Rebel Ram 'Albemarle'"
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 4 June 1864,
depicting USS Sassacus ramming CSS Albemarle, during
the Confederate ironclad's engagement with U.S. Navy gunboats
in Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, 5 May 1864.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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