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Commodore J. L. Worden [split stereocard]

Image of J. L. Worden seated, looking to his left of the camera. Inscription on image: "J. L. Worden." Inscription on verso: "Commodore J. L. Worden. He was in command of the 'Monitor' when she whipped the 'Merrimac,'" and "1861--Photographic History...

GLC05111.01.1240

View of the parapet at Fort Sumter.

View of the parapet at Fort Sumter. The guns on the parapet are trained on the Iron Clad Battery.

GLC04509.24

View of damage on the interior of Fort Sumter .

Osborn imprint on verso. View of damage on the interior of Fort Sumter by the Iron Clad Battery.

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to Edwin M. Stanton

Written by General Halleck as commander of the Department of the Mississippi to Stanton as Secretary of War. Has heard that the rebels are building one or more riverboats "clad in rail road iron like the Merrimac." Says if it is true they can wreak...

GLC04536

To his wife

Reports his move via train, making bunks from lumber and the new comfort, finding an old friend at the sutlers, describing the wreck of the Cumberland and iron-clads: "There is several of the iron clad monitors laying out here in the Rhodes [sic]....

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To his wife

Describes orders to march, countermarch and counter-countermarch. Says half the regiment is sick although he is healthy and that the monitors have begun attacking Forts Sumter and Wagner.

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to Nan [Maury]

Writes that he is much better but still not well enough to make the trip to Milton. Notes that if not for his illness he would have been sent to command one of the Ironclads at Richmond. Year inferred.

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to Nan [Maury]

Mentions family and friends in Richmond. Captain Lee thinks there may be an opening for him in the Navy in an ironclad at Charleston.

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[Account of battle between C.S.S. Alabama and U.S.S. Kearsarge]

Writes about the battle between the C.S.S. Alabama and U.S.S. Kearsarge, which "took place in the English Channel, about seven miles distant from the port of Cherbourg, France on the 19th day of June 1864." On first and second pages, gives...

GLC04022

U.S. iron clad ram. Dictator.

Title continues "Designed by J. Ericsson. Built at the Delameter Iron Works, New York. 1863. " Created by Endicott & Co. at 59 Beekman Street, New York. Image dominated by the low-lying "Dictator" -- the deck appears to be only a few feet from the...

GLC03530