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Tag Archives: USS Wabash
Ships vs Forts 1861: Off to the Races
L to R: USS Harriet Lane (background), USS Wabash, USS Minnesota, USS Pawnee It was unthinkable for wooden warships in the long age of sail to engage massive forts mounting huge guns often firing heated shot plunging from the heights. … Continue reading
Posted in Artillery, Battles, Emerging Civil War, Navies
Tagged Atlantic Blockading Squasron, Battle of Port Royal, civil-war-forts, Columbiad, Dahlgren smoothbore, Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham, Fort Beauregard, Fort Clark, Fort Hatteras, Fort Walker, frigate, gunboats, Hilton Head Island, North Carolina Sounds, P. G. T. Beauregard, sloop-of-war, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, steam vessels, The Great Naval Expedition, USS Cumberland, USS Harriet Lane, USS Indianola, USS Isaac Smith, USS Minnesota, USS Montecello, USS Pawnee, USS Pocahontas, USS Susqauehanna, USS Wabash
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Sailors, Slaves, and Henry P. Moore
While doing some research for an upcoming post, I came across several photographs by Henry P. Moore, a New Hampshire artist who traveled to South Carolina in 1862. Like many of his colleagues, Moore capitalized on the outbreak of the … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Photography, Slavery
Tagged 3rd New Hampshire Regiment, contraband, Henry P. Moore, navy, Photography, Sailors, Sea Islands, Slavery, South Carolina, USS Vermont, USS Wabash
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