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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64088-KN (Color)

USS Cumberland sunk by CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack), 8 March 1862

Colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862, entitled "The Sinking of the 'Cumberland' by the Iron Clad 'Merrimac', off Newport News, Va., March 8th 1862. 'Cumberland' went down with all her Flags flying: -- destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris calling to his crew 'Given them a Broadside boys, as she goes'."

Courtesy of the Beverly Robinson Collection, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland.

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11 May 2001