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NH 54479 "Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"

Photo #: NH 54479 "Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"
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Title: "Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn)"
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Description: Photo #: NH 54479 Running the Blockade. (The Sumter and the Brooklyn) Lithograph by Netherclift, frontispiece of Volume I of The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter, etc., by Commander Raphael Semmes, CSN, et al, London, 1864. It depicts CSS Sumter escaping from the Mississippi River past the blockading USS Brooklyn, 30 June 1861. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 54479
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