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NH 79920 USS Marblehead engages a Confederate Battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863

Photo #: NH 79920  USS Marblehead engages a Confederate Battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863
Title: USS Marblehead engages a Confederate Battery on John's Island, Stono River, South Carolina, 25 December 1863
Description: Halftone image, copied from Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 51, published by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It shows one of Marblehead's gun crews returning the Confederate fire. The man at left, wearing a nightshirt and holding a sword, is the ship's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Commander Richard W. Meade, Jr., who had been suddenly awakened when the enemy opened fire. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 79920
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