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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 63362

Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, USN


Standing beside a 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle, on board USS Pawnee in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, circa 1863-1865. He was then commanding the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Identification of the gun is from Warren Ripley: "Artillery and Ammunition of the Civil War", page 104.

The original negative for this photograph is held by the Library of Congress (their photo # is LC-B8171-3417).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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24 October 2003