DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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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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