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Showing posts with label salvaging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salvaging. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2016
Union Navy Officers and Sailors Posing on the Deck of the USS Sciota Shortly After the Union Sunken Gunboat Was Raised From Twelve Feet of Water in Mobile Bay, Alabama (1865)
Union Navy officers and sailors posing on the deck of the USS Sciota shortly after the sunken gunboat was raised from twelve feet of water in Mobile Bay, Alabama, April 1865. It had been sunk by a Confederate mine on April 14, 1865. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Two Views of Men Posing With the Wreckage of a Steam Locomotive Named Charles Minot Which Was Derailed During an Attack by Confederate Cavalry Near Manassas Junction, Virginia (1862)
Two views of men posing with the wreckage of a steam locomotive named Charles Minot which was derailed during an attack by Confederate cavalry in Virginia, 1862. The men, probably railroad engineers, appear to be trying to salvage the locomotive. According to Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, this was a train derailed by Confederate cavalry near Manassas Junction in 1862. By Andrew J. Russell.
Source 1.
Source 2.
Negative version of the second photograph held by the National Archives (NARA).
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.
Source.
Wikipedia entry.
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