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NH 59286 Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake

Photo #: NH 59286 Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake
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Title: Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake
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Description: (ex-CSS Nashville, 1861-1862) Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume II, page 41, showing Rattlesnake burning after being shelled by the monitor USS Montauk, commanded by Captain John L. Worden, USN, in the Ogeechee River, Georgia on 28 February 1863. Fort McAllister is in the right-center background, and the U.S. Navy gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn are providing supporting fire in the left distance. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 59286
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