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| Date: | 03 13 1862 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | The USS "Benton" was an "ironclad" ship which served as Capt. Andrew Hull Foote's flagship during the March 1862 assault on Island No. 10. |
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