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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59298

"Charleston Harbor, Looking towards the City"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, pages 264-65, depicting the Federal fleet off the harbor mouth at the time of the ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter, 7 April 1863.
U.S. Navy ships specifically identified include New Ironsides (second from left in the ironclad formation) and Keokuk (ironclad furthest to the right).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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30 August 2001