Photo #: NH 59002
"Commodore Foote's Gun-boat Flotilla on the Mississippi"
Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published
in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
Ships are identified below the image as (from left to right):
Mound City, Essex, Cairo, Saint Louis,
Louisville, Benton, Pittsburg and Lexington.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42366
Battle of Fort Henry, 6 February 1862
Line engraving after a drawing by Rear Admiral Henry Walke, published
in the "History of the Great Rebellion", by Harper.
The print depicts the Federal gunboats Saint Louis, Carondelet,
Essex and Cincinnati bombarding Fort Henry.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59042
"The Union Gun-boat 'Essex' (Commander Porter) Destroying
the Rebel Iron-clad Ram 'Arkansas', in the Mississippi"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
CSS Arkansas was run ashore and burned to prevent capture
when her engines failed during this encounter with USS Essex,
on 6 August 1862.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59043
"Recapture of Baton Rouge, La., December 17th, 1862 -- Federal
troops under General Grover driving off the Confederates and
occupying the city"
Line engraving, after a sketch by F. H. Schell, published in
"The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I. The ironclad
gunboat USS Essex is depicted at right, just off shore.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59083
"Sectional View of a Torpedo found in the Mississippi by
the Gun-boat 'Essex'"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863.
The lower part of the print is entitled "Interior of the
Clock-work".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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