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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 79920

USS Marblehead engages a Confederate Battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863


Halftone image, copied from "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 51, published by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It shows one of Marblehead's gun crews returning the Confederate fire. The man at left, wearing a nightshirt and holding a sword, is the ship's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Richard W. Meade, Jr., who had been suddenly awakened when the enemy opened fire.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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