Photo #: NH 59222
"The Rebel Steamer 'Merrimac' running down the Frigate 'Cumberland'
off Newport News"
Line engraving, published in the "Harper's Weekly",
January-June 1862, pages 184-185, depicting CSS Virginia
(ex-USS Merrimack) ramming USS Cumberland, 8 March
1862. USS Congress and the bow of a Confederate gunboat
are shown at right.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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