Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: ABCH

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1864
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	bucket (wood); cannon; Dahlgren gun; flag; handspike wrench; naval carriage (wood); rammer staff; rope; sponge staff; tube pouch
Locations & Lines:	James River; Virginia
Military Units:	US Navy
Transports:	gunboat; USS Miami
Sources:	Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives

National Archives says: On deck of Gunboat. Bringing Parrott [sic] gun into position on board the “Mendota.”

Library of Congress says: Gun crew on deck of U.S.S. Miami, [i.e. Mendota] James River, Va.

Wikipedia says: A 9″ Dahlgren smoothbore cannon on the deck of USS Miami.

Etched onto negative: No. 408[?] [crossed out]. 374.