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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 65698

Sinking of USS Cumberland by CSS Virginia, 8 March 1862


Line engraving published in "Leslie's Weekly", circa 1862, depicting the scene on board the Cumberland as she went down off Newport News, Virginia, with her crew still firing on the Confederate ironclad.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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11 May 2000