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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: LC-B8171-652 USS Galena (1862-1872) Photograph taken on board by Matthew Brady, shortly after the 15 May 1862 action with Confederate batteries at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. This view looks forward on the starboard side of the spar deck, and shows holes in Galena's smokestack (in left center) made by Confederate cannon fire. Among the other items seen are boat davits, canvas windsails, the elevated wooden conning platform and the lookout position on the foremast. Collections of the Library of Congress. Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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9 July 2001