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NH 59288 Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863

Photo #: NH 59288 Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863
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Title: Bombardment of Fort McAllister, Georgia, 3 March 1863
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Description: Line engraving published in Harper's Weekly, January-June 1863, page 196, depicting the bombardment of Fort McAllister by the U.S. Navy monitors Passaic, Patapsco and Nahant. The engraving is based on a sketch by an eye-witness on board USS Montauk, which is in the right center foreground. In the left foreground, firing on the fort, are the mortar schooners C.P. Williams, Norfolk Packet and Para. Among other U.S. Navy ships involved were gunboats Wissahickon, Seneca and Dawn and tug Dandelion. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 59288
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