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Building Pontoons to Mount Mortars

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Description:	"Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther...

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Colonel Ellet's Rams

Date:	06 06 1862
Description:	"Colonel Ellet's Rams approaching the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to demand its surrender." Sketch of a cityscape in the background, the river with numero...

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