Photo #: NH 61484
USS Champion (1863-1865, "Tinclad" # 24)
Lithograph by Middleton, Strobridge & Company, Cincinnati, Ohio,
1864, after a drawing by Chas. A. Fisher.
Inscription below the image reads: "United States Steamer
Champion. Mississippi Squadron. Acting Ensign Thomas Divins,
Commanding Nov. 1864". Thomas "Divins" is a misprint
for Thomas Divine.
Courtesy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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