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 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 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 85573-KN (color)
"The Iron-Clad Frigate New Ironsides and Two Ericsson
Batteries going into action at Charleston"
Hant-tinted copy of a line engraving by Smyth, depicting USS
New Ironsides and two monitors in action at Charleston,
South Carolina, circa 1863.
Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 58707
Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War",
Volume II, page 184, depicting the rescue of Weehawken's
survivors, off Charleston, South Carolina.
The large broadside ironclad in the left middle distance is USS
New Ironsides.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 51795
"Last Gun from Fort Sumter"
Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa
the later 19th Century.
This print depicts a Civil War bombardment of Fort Sumter, in
Charleston harbor, South Carolina, by U.S. Navy ships. USS Wabash
is in the right foreground, with USS New Ironsides in
the right distance. Two monitors are also present.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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