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The United States monitor "Neosho" engaging three Rebel batteries on t...

Published in: Harper's weekly, 1864. Public domain photograph of a navy ship, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Porter's fleet passing the dam at Alexandria

Print shows a dam constructed by Union troops to raise the water level to a depth that would enable Union ironclads to continue on the Red River at Alexandria, Louisiana. Illus. in: Harper's pictorial history ... More

[The crew hanging the ship's lifeboats on the Imperial Ironclad Frigat...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 42. No. 623. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. No. 587. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S. iron clad Galena, after her attack on Fort Darling, James River, ...

Photograph showing the deck of the warship after receiving Confederate cannon fire, with holes in the smokestack. Mounted on board with five other photographs. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congr... More

[Lt. Colonel Faik Bey, captain of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmani...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 10. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[General Mehmed Paşa, Commander of the ironclad fleet division and the...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 12. No. 622. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abd... More

Reassembled remains of the USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Cairo was one of seven ironclad gunboats employed by the Union Navy on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers during the American Civil W... More

The Monitor Deck view, from the bow

Photograph shows Union sailors aboard the ironclad USS Monitor on the James River, Virginia; shows light damage caused to the turret during its fight with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862, a... More

[Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia Battered smokestack from C.S.S. ironclad...

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

The iron-clad New Ironsides in fighting trim

Photograph shows a reproduction of a book illustration of the ironclad in battle.

U.S. steamer "Massasoit," in James River, 1864

Stereograph showing Union sailors on a pier in the foreground and the U.S. gunboat Massasoit nearby on the James River in Virginia. No. 2547. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 186... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

Winona. [Ironclad] - Public domain drawing

Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of submarine on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.584) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Civil War in America--Naval engagement in Hampton Roads: the Confe...

Illus. in: The Illustrated London news, 1862 April 5, p. 327.

Map showing the investment and siege of Savannah, Georgia by Genl Sher...

Regional view of Savannah, Ga., with the many landforms (rivers, sounds, swamps, islands) noted as well as the locations of forts Jackson and Pulaski. The Savannah & Gulf Railroad, Georgia Central Railroad, and... More

Monitor off Akin's Landing, November 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing the double turreted ironclad monitor "Onandaga" off Akin's Landing in the James River.

[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Şevket] / Constantinople, Abdull...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. No. 595. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The officers' club of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Cons...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 20. No. 433. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

[Colonel Rasim Bey, captain of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye]...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 8. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid I... More

[The commanders and officers of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiy...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 15. No. 428. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abd... More

Intérieur de la batterie du Merrimac, pendant le combat avec le Monito...

Interior of the Merrimac showing Confederate sailors loading cannon, during combat with the Monitor. Illus. from: Le Monde Illustré. Exhibited: Capitol Visitors Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2011.

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

Atlanta or Fingal captured 1863 in Savannah

Broadside view of ironclad. Possibly by William Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.541) Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P. Forms part of: Mor... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 23. No. 426. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

The monitors and the Merrimac / K.

Illustration shows a battered ironclad labeled "High Cost of Living" being bombarded by several ironclads labeled "Berger, Shanks [sic], Sulzer, George, Jr., [and] Taft", their gunblasts labeled, respectively, ... More

Reassembled remains of the USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Cairo was one of seven ironclad gunboats employed by the Union Navy on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers during the American Civil W... More

Rebel Ram Stonewall, Confederate States of America.

Stereograph showing the Confederate warship "Stonewall." No. 5. Part of series: Views in Washington, D.C. Copyright in 1867 by F. H. Bell. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

[The stern cabin of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Constant...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 603. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More

[An ironclad] - Public domain scan / drawing

Broadside view of steamship and ironclad. Title devised. Inscribed on verso: [ ] Harrison Fa[ll?] '61 1302 Pine Phila. 16055 Vine Ave/28th Get from/C Gaybe Gates Ave Cross Grand St Ferry/to South 7th St. Take... More

Monitor off Akin's Landing, James River (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing the double turreted monitor "Onandaga" off Akin's Landing in the James River.

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

Winona. [Ironclad] - Public domain drawing

Broadside view steamship. Title inscribed below image. Sketch of submarine on verso. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.584) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[James River, Virginia Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

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 ir... More

[The stern cannon of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 22. No. 422. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The Imperial Ironclad Frigates Hamidiye, Osmaniye and Aziziye seen fr...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 24. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More

[The stern hall on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Constant...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 33. No. 660. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[Merrimac & Monitor] - A black and white photo of a boat in the water

Picryl description: Public domain photo of American art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. Battleship sic Katahdin - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

Photo shows the ironclad naval ram Katahdin, launched 1893 and decommissioned from the U.S. Navy in 1909. (Source: C. Seavey, 2016) Attribution to Hart based on style of numbering on transparency. Negative copy... More

The sinking of the "Cumberland" by the iron clad "Merrimac," off Newpo...

Print shows "Cumberland" getting off last shots before rolling onto its side and sinking; the ironclad "Virginia", formerly the "Merrimack", approaches from the side, firing on the sinking ship. Sailors who hav... More

Crew of Monitor, Hampton Roads, Virginia 1862

Stereograph showing the crew of the U.S.S. ironclad, "Monitor" sitting and standing on deck near the turret. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be avail... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 29. No. 587. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mahmudiye] / Consta...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 37. No. 420. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

[Group portrait of the crew on the deck of an ironclad]

Title devised by library staff. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mi... More

Confederate ironclad Stonewall at Ferrol, Spain, March, 1865

No. 5359. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

[The commanders and officers of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiy...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 16. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[Lt. Colonel Muhiddin Bey, captain of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Ne...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 11. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Aziziye] / Abdullah Frères, Constantino...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 38. No. 44. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More

The Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Tevfik Constantinople, Abdullah F...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 39. No. 673. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

Das ist der Weg zum Frieden -- die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne ...

Poster shows a clenched, ironclad fist. Text: That's the way to peace -- the enemy wants it that way! Therefore subscribe to the War Loan.

[General Mehmed Paşa, Commander of the Imperial Ironclad Fleet] / Cons...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid I... More

[The crew of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Asar-i Tevfik] / Constantin...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 40. No. 621. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[The commanders and officers of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 14. No. 619. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abd... More

[Interior view of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Constanti...

Gun room. Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 18. No. 440. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II ... More

[The artillery exercises of the Osmaniye]

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

[The Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Necm-i Şevket] / Constantinople, Abdu...

Public domain image of a sailing ship, caravel, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime seascape, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

[The rigging drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Mes'udiye] / Const...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 24. No. 429. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collectio... More

The American ram - A drawing of a man in a top hat

On the cover of a patriotic song dedicated to Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles Uncle Sam rides a "ram," or ironclad steam vessel, down the Mississippi River. The Library's copy of the music cover w... More

[An ironclad] - Public domain scan / drawing

Broadside view of steamship and ironclad. Title devised. Inscribed on verso: [ ] Harrison Fa[ll?] '61 1302 Pine Phila. 16055 Vine Ave/28th Get from/C Gaybe Gates Ave Cross Grand St Ferry/to South 7th St. Take... More

Monitor off Akin's Landing, James River (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph showing the double turreted monitor "Onandaga" off Akin's Landing in the James River.

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

[Scenes associated with Dutch Gap Canal]

Nine vignetted scenes surround central image of soldiers moving earth. Title devised. Inscribed within images, from top left to bottom right: obstructions; Nigger huts James river; Deep bottom James river; mail... More

The first battle between "iron" ships of war

Print shows the Monitor and the Merrimack firing at each other during battle, with other battleships in the background, one sinking on the left. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Henry B... More

[Double turreted ironclad monitor "Onandaga," James River]

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a ship, docks, navy, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The commanders and officers of the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 13. No. 589. In album: The Imperial Naval Academy and naval personnel, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abd... More

[The Imperial Ironclad Frigates Hamidiye, Osmaniye and Aziziye seen du...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 23. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid... More

[The artillery practice on the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Büle...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and English. No. 8. No. 421. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abd... More

[The Imperial Frigate Osmaniye] during American Civil War

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 2. In album: Ships, naval schools and the Naval Fire Brigade, Istanbul and environs, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid ... More

Reassembled remains of the USS Cairo at Vicksburg National Military Pa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Cairo was one of seven ironclad gunboats employed by the Union Navy on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers during the American Civil W... More

[The crew hanging the ship's lifeboats on the Imperial Ironclad Frigat...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 42. No. 623. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection... More

[Sailors in front of turret on the U.S.S. Lehigh Passaic-class ironcla...

Title devised by Library from information on item verso. Notation on verso: "View on Moultrie." For information on the identification of the photographer see article: "Richmond Again Taken: Reappraising the Bra... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

[Ironclad vessel with rudder and paddlewheel]

Illus. in: Gaspar Schott, Technica Curiosa, 1664, pl. 30, opp. p. 388. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Marine engineering; ... More

War 1862 -

A Civil War cartoon showing New York Herald publisher and editor, James Gordon Bennett, as an American Indian whose pants, torso, and face are embellished with the Stars and Stripes. He awaits the arrival of a... More

Admiral Porter's second dummy frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg

Illustration showing a phony ironclad made of wood meant to fool the Confederate batteries on the Mississippi River at Vicksburg into wasting ammunition trying to sink the dummy vessel. Illus. in: Harper's wee... More

The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill

Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two p... More

[Artillery hold in the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Feth-i Bülend] / Co...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 7. No. 419. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Hamidiye] / Abdulla...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 9. No. 636. In album: Imperial frigates and naval personnel, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdul-Hamid II Collection ... More

[The deck of the Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Necm-i Şevket] / Constant...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 5. No. 625. In album: Ships and naval personnel, Istanbul and Black Sea lifesaving stations, Ottoman Empire. Forms part of: Abdu... More

[The Imperial Ironclad Corvette, Avn-i Ilâh] / Abdullah Frères, Consta...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of Turkey, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.

[The cannon drill on the Imperial Ironclad Frigate Osmaniye] / Constan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a navy artillery gun, cannon, ship weapon, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The advance on Port Gibson Attack on Grand Gulf.

Prints show Union troops marching through the countryside from Bruinsburg to Port Gibson, and Union vessels, under the command of Admiral David D. Porter, engaged in naval bombardment of Confederate guns at Gra... More

Das ist der Weg zum Frieden -- die Feinde wollen es so! Darum zeichne ...

Poster shows a clenched, ironclad fist. Text: That's the way to peace -- the way the enemy wants it that way! Therefore subscribe to the War Loan. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

U.S.S. Cairo Ironclad, Vicksburg, Warren County, MS

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: Built by James B. Eads for use on western rivers, Cairo was commissioned in January 1862 and was one of seven City Class ironclad gunboats, all of a uniform desig... More

Turret of Pasaic (i.e. Passaic) monitor, Charleston Harbor, S.C.

Photograph shows a sailor standing at the turret of the Union ironclad Passaic in Charleston harbor, while two men stand above near the pilot house. Indentations in the turret were caused by cannon fire. Purcha... More

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