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NH 53866 USS General Lyon (1862-1865)

Photo #: NH 53866 USS General Lyon (1862-1865)
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Title: USS General Lyon (1862-1865)
Description: View of the ship's upper deck, forward, during the Civil War, showing her smokestacks and a 12-pounder Dahlgren howitzer on an iron field carriage. Note low wooden railing around the deck edge. Photographed by Acting Assistant Surgeon George Holmes Bixby, MD, Chief Medical Officer, USS Red Rover.
Catalog #: NH 53866
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