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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 61473

"Destruction of the Monitor 'Tecumseh' by a Rebel Torpedo, in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864."


Line engraving, after a sketch by Robert Weir, published in "Harper's Weekly", 10 September 1864, depicting the loss of USS Tecumseh during the Battle of Mobile Bay.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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28 November 2001