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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59652

USS Red Rover (1862-1865)


Line engravings published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, page 300, depicting scene on board the U.S. Navy's Western Rivers hospital ship during the Civil War.
The scene at left, entitled "The Sister", shows a nurse attending to a patient.
That at right shows a convalescent ward.
The middle view is of a lonely grave on the river bank.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 January 2000