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NH 59319 "Army & Navy Reconnoissance. Tuesday Morning Nov. 5" 1861

Photo #: NH 59319 "Army & Navy Reconnoissance. Tuesday Morning Nov. 5" 1861
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Title: "Army & Navy Reconnoissance. Tuesday Morning Nov. 5" 1861
Description: Photo #: NH 59319 Army & Navy Reconnoissance. Tuesday Morning Nov. 5 1861 Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 59319
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