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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. |
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| Description: | Drawing of a section of a completed part of Fort Cairo facing the confluen [sic] of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. |
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| Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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| Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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| Description: | "Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains to the Army at Springfield, MO." Men on horseback are riding along a trail carrying supplies. |
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| Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | An image from a sketchbook of "The Gunboats at No. 10 — Eve of Arrival before the I'sld". The drawing appears to be from the deck of a ship showing several... |
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| Description: | Multiple sketches — a man and a woman leaning on a table; close-ups of the woman; trees along a river. |
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| Description: | People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu... |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge. |
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| Description: | A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ... |
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| Description: | "Scene on the Raging Tennessee" River. Preliminary sketch of a ship going down the Tennessee River from the vantage point of the deck of the ship. There is... |
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| Description: | A sketch of a steamboat coming down the Tennessee River. Both shorelines are visible and there is another boat in the far distance. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | "Battle ground in foreground where occurred the skirmish near Farmington near Corinth." Farmington church near Corinth, Mississippi. Preliminary sketch sho... |
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| Description: | "Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington". A picket (a detachment of one or more troops) shown in a woodland setting. There is a log building with a ca... |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Donelson with landscape including sparse buildings and trees. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Preliminary sketch of a battlefield with trees and human outlines. |
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| Description: | Rough sketch of a "Rebel Gunboat" and trees in the background. |
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| Description: | Various small rough sketches of several boats and a vague image with a tent and trees. |
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