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Gunboat Mendota
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for full size image Size Image Description Source 133k Original photo caption: GUN CREW ON THE U.S.S. MENDOTA
Our fine frigates of the War of 1812 were armed with carronades and long guns. Gunnery became more scientific in the years preceding the Civil War, and Dahlgren and Rodman smooth bores and Parrott rifled guns were the chief dependence of the Navy. The picture is an actual photograph of a Civil War gun crew on the Mendota, a steamer of 974 tons, mounting two 100-pounders, two 20-pounders, four 9-inch guns, and two 24-pounders
U.S. Navy photo courtesy Office of Naval Records and Library
Replacement photo: Enlisted personnel are bringing the Parrott gun into position on board the "Mendota." The gun crew are wearing Navy colts and cutlasses at their sides to repel boarders; do hand to hand fighting on a shore excursions, or to capture a Rebel ship if necessary. The lone Marine is wearing a Kepi at the rear of the gun
National Archives photo Original photo: Darryl Baker Replacement photo: Bill Gonyo 393k James River at Deep Bottom, Virginia
Library of Congress photo Bill Gonyo 270k Stereoscopic image of the Officers of gunboat Mendota
Photo by Matthew Brady
National Archives Identifier 111-B-601 Dave Tooley 146k Photo from "Civil War Sea Battles - Shipwrecks in he War Between the States" by Edward Stokes Miller Tommy Trampp
Photo added 3 November 2020 382k Ship's officers and crew on the foredeck, 1864-65
Photographed by Matthew Brady
U.S. Navy photo NH 59439 Naval History and Heritage Command 169k Ship's officers and crew on the foredeck of USS Mendota, 1864-65
Photographed by Matthew Brady
Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 59439 Robert Hurst 113k Original photo: James River, c. 1864 Replacement photo: Photo by Matthew Brady, 1 January 1864
National Archives photo ARC 524597 Original photo: National Archives Replacement photo: Robert Hurst 158k 10 July 1864
Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographic Division Bill Gonyo 42k Gunboat Mendota on James River, 1 August 1864
Matthew Brady Collection
DVIC Photo HD-SN-99-01854 Defense Visual Information Center 186k c. 1864
James River, VA
Library of Congress photo Bill Gonyo 235k Acting Ensign Winslow B. Barnes received his commission on 8 March 1864. He served his enlistment aboard the gunboat USS Mendota for the remainder of the war until he resignation was approved. He separated from the U.S. Navy on 26 April 1865. His only command was the schooner William H. Dennis loaded with 800 tons of coal to sail a resupply from the James River to Beaufort, S.C. with a crew of eleven men led by CDR Edward T. Nichols. This is the only mention of Barnes in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
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