Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | An original illustration of the lock at Rexford Flats. |
Date: | 03 13 1862 |
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Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"... |
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Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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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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Description: | "Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains to the Army at Springfield, MO." Men on horseback are riding along a trail carrying supplies. |
Date: | 02 15 1862 |
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Description: | "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ... |
Date: | 06 06 1862 |
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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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Description: | "Comisary [sic] Steamer — Pittsburgh Landing." Steamboat on river near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
Date: | 05 1862 |
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Description: | "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." An encampment with soldiers along the river with a ... |
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Description: | "Lieutenant Foster's Camp preparing for the night contrabands with the Engineer, Dept. of the Army". Tents are in the background and men are loading horse-... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | An image from a sketchbook of "The Gunboats at No. 10 — Eve of Arrival before the I'sld". The drawing appears to be from the deck of a ship showing several... |
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Description: | Home of Notorious Rebel — E.L. Newsome (located in New Madrid, Missouri). There is a farmstead with a man and woman in the foreground, a fence in the middl... |
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Description: | An image from a sketchbook showing a hospital boat (possibly steamboat). |
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Description: | People engaged in various activities along the bank of the Mississippi River. There are both men and women and a horse next to the river edge. Trees are cu... |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | This is the preliminary sketch for "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." Shows an encampm... |
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Description: | "An 'Imperial Scene' up the Tenn." (Tennessee River). A view from the rear of a man maneuvering a steamboat up the river using a steering wheel. |
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Description: | Preliminary sketch for "Fort Pillow upon the Eve of the Evacuation by the Rebels". |
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Description: | Preliminary sketch of Hamburg Landing. Men are carrying items on land. There is a line of boats docked at the rivers edge. |
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