| Credit: | unknown photographer |
|---|---|
| Date: | 1865.03 |
| Locations & Lines: | Bridgeport AL; Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad (N&C); Tennessee; Tennessee River |
| Military Units: | US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Navy |
| Structures & Establishments: | N&C Bridge (Bridgeport AL) |
| Transports: | side-wheeler; USS General Burnside – 63; USS General Grant – 62; USS General Sherman – 60; USS General Thomas – 61 |
| Sources: | Naval History and Heritage Command; Photographic History of the Civil War |
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Naval History and Heritage Command says: Federal gunboats on the upper Tennessee River. Left to right: USS GENERAL SHERMAN (#60), USS GENERAL THOMAS (#61), USS GENERAL GRANT (#62), USS GENERAL BURNSIDE (#63). Bridgeport, Tennessee River, March 1865.
Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, p233; says Federal Gunboats on the Upper Tennessee. The vessels shown above, as they lay in the Tennessee near Bridgeport in March, 1865, are, from left to right, the “General Sherman,” No. 60; the “General Thomas,” No. 61; the “General Grant,” No. 62; and the “General Burnside,” No. 63; all named after military leaders whose strategy had resulted in the recovery of Tennessee to the Union.