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NH 79908 "The Manassas struck us a Diagonal Blow"

Photo #: NH 79908 "The Manassas struck us a Diagonal Blow"
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Title: "The Manassas struck us a Diagonal Blow"
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Description: Photo #: NH 79908 The Manassas struck us a Diagonal Blow Artwork by Bacon published in Deeds of Valor, Volume II, page 20, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts CSS Manassas ramming USS Brooklyn, during the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the Mississippi River below New Orleans, 24 April 1862. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 79908
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