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Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, N.C. Item Info
- Title:
- Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, N.C.
- Artist:
- Laycock
- Date:
- January 15 [1865]
- Transcription:
- Recto: "Jan. 15th Line of Battle No. 2 Comprizing [sic] all the larger ships of Admiral Porter's fleet // [l-r] Mound Battery // "Ticonderga" Capt. Stedman // "Shenardoah" Capt. Rigely // "Tuscarora" Capt. Frailey // "Juniata" Capt. Phelps // "Mahopae" Comm'dor Parrott // Canonicus. Lieut. Comdr. Belknap // "Powhatan" Commodore Schenck // "Susquehanna" Commodore Godon // "Wabash" Capt. Smith // "Colorado" Commodore Thatcher // "new Ironsides" Commodore Radford // "Minnesota" Commodore Lanmann // Brooklyn Capt. Alden.";Verso: No text.
- Subjects:
- Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort)--Siege, 1864-1865 North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Navy.--North Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1861-1865) Warships
- Condition:
- Left quarter detached; two vertical folds; partially torn.
- Place:
- North Carolina--New Hanover--Fort Fisher
- Medium:
- graphite, charcoal, black ink on paper
- Dimensions:
- 27.25 x 11 in.
- Genre:
- Image;StillImage
- Coordinates:
- 33.9716424, -77.9177488
- Source:
- Original drawing location: CW-L-NC-1-15-65 (Box 10).
- URI:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2345/5004
- Ref. Number:
- (Becker)CW-L-NC-1-15-65
- Collection:
- Ships
- Tags:
- Ships
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Attribution
- Citation:
- "Bombardment of Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, N.C.", The Becker Collection, Boston College Libraries, /items/2730.html