Photo #: NH 59269
"Panoramic View of Charleston Harbor. -- Advance of Ironclads
to the Attack, April 7th, 1863"
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War",
Volume II, page 172, with a key to individual ships and land
features shown.
U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to center): Keokuk,
Nahant, Nantucket, Catskill, New Ironsides,
Patapsco, Montauk, Passaic and Weehawken.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59298
"Charleston Harbor, Looking towards the City"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June
1863, pages 264-65, depicting the Federal fleet off the harbor
mouth at the time of the ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter, 7
April 1863.
U.S. Navy ships specifically identified include New Ironsides
(second from left in the ironclad formation) and Keokuk
(ironclad furthest to the right).
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58751
USS Keokuk (1863-1863)
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863,
depicting her as she sank off Charleston, South Carolina, on
8 April 1863, the morning after she received heavy damage from
Confederate guns during the Union ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42916
Charleston Campaign, 1863-65
Photostat reproduction of a chart, redrawn from the "Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the
Rebellion", entitled "Approaches to Charleston, S.C.".
It shows the positions of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken,
Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic, as well
as the location where USS New Ironsides spent two hours
over a "torpedo" on 7 April 1863.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 42917
Charleston Campaign, 1863-65
Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston,
South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S.
Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and
Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS
New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts
encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863,
16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes".
Copied from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Navies in the War of the Rebellion".
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 1978
XI-inch Dahlgren smooth-bore gun
Halftone reproduction of a photograph taken at Charleston, South
Carolina, during the late 19th Century or early 20th Century.
The gun is mounted on an iron seacoast artillery carriage.
This gun was salvaged from the USS Keokuk after she sank
as a result of battle damage received during the 7 April 1863
ironclad attack on Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor. It was
subsequently employed by the Confederates.
Copied from the book "The Battery, Charleston, S.C."
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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