| Credit: | unknown photographer |
|---|---|
| Date: | 1862-1863 |
| Equipment: | flag |
| Military Units: | US Navy |
| Transports: | ironclad; USS Baron DeKalb |
| Sources: | National Archives; Naval History and Heritage Command |
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File Details: AJXUm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 5.4 Mb
Image ID: AJXU
National Archives says: United States Gunboats and Transports. First ironclad gunboat built in America. The Saint Louis.
Naval History and Heritage Command incorrectly says: USS Carondelet (1862-1865). Photographed published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke’s Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States … (1877). Note five-pointed star suspended between the ship’s smokestacks. [not seen on original prints]
Unidentified location. Mississippi River?
The “Saint Louis” was renamed the “Baron De Kalb” September 8,1862.