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NH 42241 Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865

Photo #: NH 42241  Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865
Title: Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865
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Description: Photo #: NH 42241 Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 January 1865 Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, circa 1865, entitled Monitor Iron-Clads and the New Ironsides, Forming part of the Fleet of Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, U.S.N. riding out a Gale of Wind, at Anchor off Fort Fisher, Coast of North Carolina, December 21, 1864. The print is dedicated by the publisher to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus V. Fox. Monitors in the foreground and middle distance are (from left to right) Monadnock (twin-turret), Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus. Ships in the distance (from left to left-center) are: Brooklyn, New Ironsides, Juniata, Tacony and Malvern. Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 42241
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