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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59207

"The First Day's Firing at Yorktown, April 1862."


Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume of January-June 1862, page 261.
It depicts aspects of the seige of Yorktown, Virginia, by General McClellan's army at an early stage of the Peninsular Campaign. U.S. Navy gunboats are shown engaging Confederate forces ashore and afloat, with USS Naugatuck specifically identified (in the upper center of the print).

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17 April 2002