Deck,turret,USS Monitor,vessels,Federal Navy,Union,James River,Virginia,VA,1862

Title: [James River, Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]
Creator(s): Gibson, James F., b. 1828, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1862 July 9.
Summary: Photo shows the light damage caused to the turret of the ironclad USS Monitor during her fight with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first battle of two ironclad warships. Launched in January 1862, the Monitor was lost at sea in December that same year. Photograph relates to the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.
Notes:
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0536
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4182.
Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
Published in: The Civil War in depth / Bob Zeller. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997-2000, v. 2, p. 81.
Subjects:
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
Government vessels--Union.
United States--Virginia--James River.
Glass negatives--1860-1870.
Stereographs--1860-1870.
Bookmark /cwp2003000713/PP/
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