Photo #: NH 59286
Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake
(ex-CSS Nashville, 1861-1862)
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume II, page 41, showing Rattlesnake burning after
being shelled by the monitor USS Montauk, commanded by
Captain John L. Worden, USN, in the Ogeechee River, Georgia on
28 February 1863. Fort McAllister is in the right-center background,
and the U.S. Navy gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca
and Dawn are providing supporting fire in the left distance.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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