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Photo #: NH 79908
"The Manassas struck us a Diagonal Blow"
Artwork by Bacon published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume
II, page 20, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts CSS Manassas ramming USS Brooklyn, during
the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi
River below New Orleans, 24 April 1862.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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