Photo #: NH 48488
USS Westfield (1862-1863)
Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett, 1904.
Courtesy of the New Jersey Historical Society.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 63703
USS Westfield (1862-1863)
Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1962, painted for use in his book "Early
American Steamers", Volume IV.
She was originally the civilian ferryboat Westfield, built
in 1861.
Courtesy of Erik Heyl.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59061
"Commander Porter's Mortar Flotilla"
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862,
depicting the mortar schooner flotilla commanded by David Dixon
Porter during the April 1862 attack on the forts below New Orleans.
Vessels shown are (from left to right): Westfield, Adolph
Hugel, Para, William Bacon, Oliver H. Lee,
C.P. Williams, Henry Janes, George Mangham,
Racer, Horace Beals, Sarah Bruen, Samuel
Rotan, John Griffith, Rachel Seaman, Maria
J. Carlton, Sidney C. Jones, T.A. Ward, Sea
Foam, Maria A. Wood, Octorara (Porter's flagship)
and Matthew Vassar.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59059
"Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar
Fleet entering the Mississippi River"
Line engraving based on a sketch by an officer of USS Mississippi,
published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the
scene at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi, circa 7 April
1862.
Features identified in the engraving's title lines include (from
left to right): Light-house on Southwest Pass; USS Colorado
(in left foreground); USS Pensacola on the bar; USS Westfield
(seen nearly stern-on); Porter's mortar fleet, heading up the
river; USS Mississippi on the bar; USS Harriet Lane
(side-wheel steamer at the rear of the mortar fleet); USS Connecticut
(in right foreground); USS Clifton; town of Banona.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59063
"Panoramic View of the United States Fleet passing the Forts
on the Mississippi, on its way to New Orleans, April 19th, 1862."
Contemporary line engraving published in "The Soldier in
our Civil War", Volume I.
It depicts the Federal ships shortly before they began the passage
of the forts, with the Confederate gunboats waiting upstream.
Individual U.S. Navy ships (as identified in text below the engraving)
are: John P. Jackson; Mississippi; Pensacola;
Hartford (Flagship); Iroquois; Westfield;
Cayuga and Varuna.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59141
"Attack of the Rebels upon our Gun-boat Flotilla at Galveston,
Texas, January 1, 1863."
Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863.
USS Harriet Lane is shown in the left distance, under
attack by the Confederate gunboats Neptune and Bayou
City. The grounded USS Westfield is at right, being
blown up to prevent capture. USS Owasco is in the center
of the view.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 59142
"Surprise and Capture of the United States Steamer 'Harriet
Lane', by the Confederates, under General Magruder, and the Destruction
of the Flagship 'Westfield' in Galveston Harbor, Texas, January
1st, 1863."
Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War",
Volume II. USS Harriet Lane is shown in the center, under
attack by the Confederate gunboats Neptune and Bayou
City. USS Westfield is at the far left, being blown
up to prevent her capture.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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