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"The Great Naval Battle before Memphis, June 6, 1862". Engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", depicting the action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal warships off Memphis, Tennessee. In the foreground, the print depicts the Confederate ships (from left to right): General Sterling Price; Little Rebel (shown burning); General Sumter; General Beauregard (shown being rammed by the Ellet Ram Monarch) In the background are the Federal warships: Queen of the West (at left) and Monarch (ramming General Beauregard). The city of Memphis is in the right distance, with a wharf boat by the shore.

Date
1862
Photographer / author
Harper's Weekly
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
print
Original size
1,157 × 529 pixels

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Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).

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"Memphis-naval-battle" (1862). Harper's Weekly, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memphis-naval-battle.jpg

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