Photo #: NH 73987
"Confederates Trapping a Boat's Crew of the Potomac Fleet"
Hand colored engraving, "from a sketch by our Special Artist",
published in the "Illustrated London News Supplement",
21 September 1861.
It depicts the ambush of a boat from the U.S. Tug Resolute
by Confederate infantry, off the Virginia bank of the Potomac
River in about August 1861. The print may represent the 15 August
1861 engagement at Mathias Point, Virginia.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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