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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