This page features all the views we have related to USS Monticello (1861-1865).
Photo #: NH 59555-KN (Color)
USS Monticello (1861-1865)
Colored print of 1860s vintage, mounted on a Carte de Visite,
depicting the ship under steam at sea.
Donation of Rear Admiral D.L. Braine, USN, who commanded the
Monticello during the first part of the Civil War.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 60661
USS Monticello (1861-1865)
Wash drawing by Clary Ray, circa 1900.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59366
"Merchant Steamers Converted into Gun-boats."
Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1861 volume.
It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S.
Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted
into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left),
which became a Confederate cruiser.
U.S. Navy ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from
left to right: Alabama, Quaker City, Santiago
de Cuba (listed as "St. Jago de Cuba", Mount
Vernon, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida,
De Soto, Augusta, James Adger, Monticello,
Bienville and R.R. Cuyler.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59130
"Departure of the Great Southern Expedition, under General
Butler, from Fortress Monroe."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1861,
depicting the departure of the fleet on 26 August 1861, en route
to attack Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
Ships identified in the title line are (left to right): USS Harriet
Lane; USS Wabash; USS Minnesota; USS Monticello
and USS Pawnee.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 66576-KN (Color)
"Bombardment of Forts Hatteras & Clark, by the U.S. Fleet"
"Under the command of Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham, on
the 28th and 29th of August 1861"
Colored lithograph by J.P. Newell after a drawing by Francis
Garland, Seaman on USS Cumberland, published by J.H. Buford,
Boston, Massachusetts, 1862.
Features identified below the image are (from left to right):
USS Susquehanna; transport Fanny; Fort Hatteras;
USS Harriet Lane; Fort Clark; USS Cumberland; steamer
Adelaide; USS Minnesota; steamer George Peabody;
USS Wabash; USS Pawnee; and USS Monticello.
Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59253
"The 'Monticello' Shelling the Rebels near Hatteras, October
5, 1861."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December
1861, page 677. It depicts USS Monticello breaking up
an attack by Confederate troops on Federal forces at Kinnakeet,
near Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59170
"Second Attack upon Fort Fisher, showing the positions of
the vessels, and the lines of fire", 13-15 January 1865
Chart by Walter A. Lane, published in "The Soldier in our
Civil War", Volume II.
The positions of 58 ships are represented on the chart.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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