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- GLC#
- GLC02881.18-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- circa 1862
- Author/Creator
- Currier & Ives
- Title
- Bombardment and capture of Fort Henry, Tenn.
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 lithograph : col. Height: 30.2 cm, Width: 40.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. Full title: "Bombardment and Capture of Fort Henry, Tenn. By the Federal Gunboats, under command of Commodore Andrew H. Foote - Feby. 6th 1862." Depicts the seven ironclad gunboats of Foote: Cincinnati, St. Louis, Carondelet, Essex, Lexington, Conestoga, and Tyler, each labeled below the image. The 14 smokestacks, 2 for each ship, billow black smoke as the orange blasts of cannons hit the earthen fort. Cannon shots from Fort Henry hit the water in front of the ships.
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