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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 504
"The Last Broadside of the Varuna."
Line engraving, published circa the 1860s, depicting USS Varuna
continuing to fire at Confederate forces as she sank, during
the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans,
Louisiana, on 24 April 1862.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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