U.S. Corvettes Cumberland and Sarataga engaging rebel steamer Jamestown--off Newport News

Cannons being fired from fort in foreground at ships in background.
Signed lower left: Captain Balling.
Title inscribed on verso.
Inscribed lower right: Newport News.
Balling served as Captain of the 1st New York Regiment Infantry Volunteers from April to November 1861. He reenlisted as a Lieutenant Colonel of the 145th New York Regiment Infantry Volunteers, serving from September 1862 to January 1863 (source: American Civil War Research Database).
Published in: New York Illustrated News, 30 September 1861, p. 337.
Source unknown.
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861.