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By 114k "Bombardment and Capture of Island Number Ten on the Mississippi River, April 7, 1862."
Colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives, New York, circa 1862. It depicts the bombardment of the Confederate fortifications on Island Number Ten by Federal gunboats and mortar boats. Ships seen include (from left to right):
USS Mound City;
USS Louisville;
USS Pittsburgh;
USS Carondelet;
USS Benton;
USS Cincinnati;
USS Saint Louis;
USS Conestoga.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # KN 9691 Robert Hurst 373k "Battle of Fort Pillow, First position" Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States ... (1877), depicting the action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 10 May 1862. Confederate ships, seen at right, include (from left to right):
CSS General Earl Van Dorn,
CSS General Sterling Price,
CSS General Bragg,
CSS General Sumter and
CSS Little Rebel. The Federal ironclads, in the center and left, are (from left to right):
USS Mound City,
USS Carondelet and
USS Cincinnati. A Federal mortar boat is by the river bank in the lower right.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 2049 Tommy Trampp 122k "Battle at St. Charles, White River, Arkansas--Explosion of the USS Mound City".
Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in Harper's Weekly, 1862. This action between Federal gunboats and Confederate shore batteries took place on 17 June 1862. USS Mound City was disabled by a shot that penetrated her steam drum, causing heavy casualties among her crew. Other U.S. ships present were the ironclad USS Saint Louis (seen in the right foreground) and "timberclads" USS Lexington and USS Conestoga. The gunboat in left center is also a "timberclads".
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #NH 59057. Robert Hurst 101k "City" Class ironclad gunboats off Cairo, Illinois, in 1863, with barges moored in the foreground. These ships are (from left to right); USS Baron de Kalb, USS Cincinnati and USS Mound City. Boats are tied astern of Baron de Kalb and Cincinnati. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 56663-A. Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1981. Robert Hurst 358k "Admiral Porter's Fleet Running the Rebel Blockade of the Mississippi at Vicksburg, April 16th 1863." Text under the print's title reads: "At half past ten P.M. the boats left their moorings & steamed down the river, the Benton, Admiral Porter, taking the lead -- as they approached the point opposite the town, a terrible concentrated fire of the center, upper and lower batteries, both water and bluff, were directed upon the channel, which here ran within one hundred yards of the shore. At the same moment innumerable floats of turpentine and other combustible materials were set ablaze. In the face of all this fire, the boats made their way with but little loss except the transport Henry Clay which was set on fire & sunk."
Ships depicted are (from the front to the rear:
USS Benton (flagship);
USS Lafayette with
USS General Price alongside;
USS Louisville;
USS Mound City;
USS Pittsburgh;
USS Carondelet; transports
SS Silver Wave;
SS Forest Queen;
SS Henry Clay; and
SS Tuscumbia.
Currier & Ives, New York. Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Beverley R. Robinson Collection.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 76557-KN (Color) Robert Hurst 80k "Commodore Foote's Gun-boat Flotilla on the Mississippi". Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in Harper's Weekly, 1862. Ships are identified below the image as (from left to right):
USS Mound City,
USS Essex,
USS Cairo,
USS Saint Louis,
USS Louisville,
USS Benton,
USS Pittsburgh. and
USS Lexington.
US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo #: NH 59002
Robert Hurst 48k "Attack on Grand Gulf," 29 April 1863, from Harper's Weekly.
The attack by USS Benton,
USS Lafayette,
USS Tuscumbia,
USS Carondelet,
USS Louisville,
USS Mound City, and
USS Pittsburgh.
Tommy Trampp
098677402 192k Battle of Grand Gulf, Second Position. The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29, 1863, during the American Civil War. During Major General Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg campaign, Union Army forces had failed in attempts to bypass the strategic city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant decided move his army south, cross the Mississippi River, and then advance on Vicksburg. Seven Union Navy ironclad warships commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter bombarded Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, in preparation for a crossing of the river. Union fire was able to silence one of the two Confederate fortifications at Grand Gulf, but the position was still strong enough that Grant decided to cross the river elsewhere.
USS Benton, mislabeled as Trenton
USS Lafayette,
USS Tuscumbia,
USS Carondelet,
USS Louisville,
USS Mound City, and
USS Pittsburgh.
From p. 592 of the 1887 book 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon Òthe Century War Series"', volume 3. Uploaded by the British Library to Flickr Tommy Trampp 88k USS Mound City on the Western Rivers, circa 1864-65. Note pilothouse constructed atop her armored conning tower, deckhouse constructed forward of her paddle box, and light-colored five-pointed stars mounted on the fronts of her smokestacks.
US Navy photo # NH 72806 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command Aryeh Wetherhorn 87k USS Mound City on the Western Rivers, 1864. Note rowing boats in the foreground. That at left has a fancy-edged awning.
US Navy photo # NH 45791 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command Aryeh Wetherhorn
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