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NH 59059 "Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet entering the Mississippi River"

Photo #: NH 59059 "Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet entering the Mississippi River"
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Title: "Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet entering the Mississippi River"
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Description: 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 History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 59059
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