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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| 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: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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| Description: | "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther... |
| Date: | 05 1862 |
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| Description: | "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." An encampment with soldiers along the river with a ... |
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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: | "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: | View of Harper's Ferry, showing the pontoon bridge and bridge (extreme left) which was destroyed in 1861. |
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| Description: | "Capture of Fort Fisher." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co., Boston. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Prairie Bird," a small rear-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship. |
| Date: | 05 31 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of the Commisary [sic] depot of Major-General Halleck's army at Hamburg Landing. |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved illustration for the story titled: "The Fight at Island No. 10". The view from the deck of a boat looks out at the approaching gun boats coming do... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Sumter. A cannon has fallen on the steep shoreline and waves are hitting the rocks. Plate 58 |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Fort Sumpter [sic]. There are several men and a boat on the shoreline in the foreground. Plate 56 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Trees with Spanish moss along the Savannah River. Plate 47 |
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