Showing posts with label confederate navy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confederate navy. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

View of a 100-pounder Gun Aboard the Recently Captured CSS Teaser Which Was Captured by the USS Maratanza (1862)


An unidentified man posing with a 100-pounder gun aboard the recently captured CSS Teaser which was captured by the USS Maratanza on July 4, 1862. By James F. Gibson. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Union Soldiers Salvaging the Confederate Gunboat CSS Drewry on the James River Near the Dutch Gap Canal (1865)



Union soldiers salvaging the sunken Confederate gunboat CSS Drewry (right) on the James River near the Dutch Gap Canal, Virginia, 1865. The boat was sunk by Union artillery fire from the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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Wikipedia entry.