Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: LC-B8171-481

CSS Teaser (1861-1862)


Photograph taken on board by Matthew Brady, soon after she was captured on the James River, Virginia, on 4 July 1862.
This view shows her 12-pounder Parrott rifled gun mounted on a slide pivot carriage at her bow. A gunners' sponge, a shovel and a two casks are also visible.
This gun was on display in the Washington Navy Yard, D.C., in 1970.

Collections of the Library of Congress.

Online Image: 86KB; 740 x 635 pixels

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than this digital image, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

22 June 2001