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Photo # NH 59275:  USS Weehawken firing on Fort Sumter, 7 April 1863

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USS Weehawken (1863-1863) --
Combat Actions


This page features all the views we have related to USS Weehawken's combat actions.

For additional views of USS Weehawken, see:,

  • USS Weehawken (1863-1863).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: NH 59269

    "Panoramic View of Charleston Harbor. -- Advance of Ironclads to the Attack, April 7th, 1863"


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II, page 172, with a key to individual ships and land features shown.
    U.S. Navy ships present are (from left to center): Keokuk, Nahant, Nantucket, Catskill, New Ironsides, Patapsco, Montauk, Passaic and Weehawken.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 107KB; 900 x 350 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59275

    Attack on Fort Sumter, 7 April 1863


    Line engraving, after a sketch by W.T. Crane, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 171, depicting USS Weehawken firing on Fort Sumter during the attack.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 150KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59273

    USS Weehawken
    (1863-1863)

    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 173, depicting the"Bombardment of Fort Sumter, as seen from the Lookout of the Turret" of USS Weehawken. This may represent the 7 April 1863 attack on Fort Sumter.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 174KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58896

    "U.S. Monitor 'Weehawken' and Confederate Ram 'Atlanta'."


    Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century.
    This print depicts the capture of CSS Atlanta (at left) by USS Weehawken, in Wassaw Sound, Georgia, 17 June 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60906

    Monitors engage Confederate batteries on Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina.


    Photographed from one of the Confederate emplacements, the ships are identified as (from left to right): USS Weehawken, USS Montauk and USS Passaic. The monitor on the right appears to be firing its guns.
    Date is given as 8 September 1863, when other U.S. Navy ships were providing cover for Weehawken, which had gone aground on the previous day. She was refloated on the 8th after receiving heavy gunfire from the Confederate fortifications.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 625 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51964

    Monitors engage Confederate batteries on Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina.


    Photographed from one of the Confederate emplacements, the ships are identified as (from left to right): USS Weehawken, USS Montauk and USS Passaic. The monitor on the right appears to be firing its guns.
    Date is given as 8 September 1863, when other U.S. Navy ships were providing cover for Weehawken, which had gone aground on the previous day. She was refloated on the 8th after receiving heavy gunfire from the Confederate fortifications.
    This image is a detail of that seen in Photo # NH 60906.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     

    For additional views of USS Weehawken, see:,

  • USS Weehawken (1863-1863).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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