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By 165k Line engraving, published in "Harper's Weekly", in 1861, depicting Connecticut undergoing conversion for Naval service, at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, in July 1861. She was originally the civilian steamship Mississippi.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 59586 US Naval History and Heritage Command 100k "The Great Naval Expedition" to capture Port Royal, South Carolina, November 1861. Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, pages 696-697, depicts Federal warships and transports, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to Port Royal. Ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left): (illegible),
Oriental,
Baltic,
USS O.M. Pettit,
USS Gem of the Sea,
Great Republic,
USS Wabash (DuPont's flagship),
USS Seneca,
USS Pembina,
USS Connecticut,
USS Mercury,
USS Unadilla,
USS Augusta,
USS Alabama and (illegible).
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #: NH 59315 Robert Hurst 134k Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, based on a sketch by an officer of USS Mississippi depicting Commodore Farragut's Squadron and Captain Porter's Mortar Fleet entering the Mississippi River at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi, circa 7 April 1862. Features identified in the engraving's title lines include (from left to right): Light-house on Southwest Pass;
USS Colorado (in left foreground);
USS Pensacola on the bar;
USS Westfield (seen nearly stern-on);
Porter's mortar fleet, heading up the river;
USS Mississippi on the bar;
USS Harriet Lane (side-wheel steamer at the rear of the mortar fleet);
USS Connecticut (in right foreground);
USS Clifton;
town of Banona.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 59059 Robert Hurst 586k USS Connecticut at anchor during the Civil War, date and location unknown.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 55349. Peter Skoutas 52k USS Connecticut by Xanthus Smith, circa 1863.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 50446 US Naval History and Heritage Command 62k Watercolor of SS South America by Erik Heyl, 1948, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. Built at New York City in 1861 as the civilian steamship Mississippi, she served as USS Connecticut in 1861-1865 and was renamed South America after her return to commercial employment in 1865.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo NH 63890. Courtesy of Erik Heyl. Robert Hurst
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