Print shows Farragut's fleet bombarding and fighting at the battle of Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip near New Orleans, April 1862. Ships shown include for the Confederate States Navy, three ironclads: CSS Manassas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; for the Union Navy, USS Hartford, Pensacola, Varuna, and Brooklyn; motar vessels bombarding the forts in the background
Description:
Title from caption below image., Text below caption names the forts and some of the ships depicted above., and Another state of image with caption title above image and slightly different letters below image was issued in Robert Tomes. The war with the South, a history of the late rebellion, with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders (New York: Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867), volume 2, facing page 181. This state has imprint: Virtue, Yorston & Co., publishers, N.Y.; and copyright claim: Entered according to act of Congress AD 1863 by Virtue, Yorston & Co. in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Publisher:
Virtue, Yorston & Co.?
Subject (Geographic):
United States, Mississippi River, Fort Jackson (La.), Fort Saint Philip (La.), and New Orleans (La.)
Subject (Name):
United States. Navy. Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, Manassas (Ship), Mississippi (Ironclad), Louisiana (Ironclad), Hartford (Ship), Pensacola (Screw steamer), Brooklyn (Ship), and Varuna (Ship)
