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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 59337

"The United States Infantry burning the House of the Rebel Ruffin under the Guns of the United States Gun-boat 'Mahaska'"


Line engraving, based on a sketch "by an officer of the 'Mahaska'", published in "Harper's Weekly", Volume 6, July-December 1862, page 540.
USS Mahaska is in the left foreground.
Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, a leading figure of the seccession movement, was credited with firing the first shot of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the opening gun of the Civil War.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 February 2001