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Photo # NH 73378: CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, 15 July 1862

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This page features views of CSS Arkansas in action.

For additional pictures of CSS Arkansas, see: CSS Arkansas (1862-1862).


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

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Photo #: NH 73377

CSS Arkansas engaging USS Carondelet, 15 July 1862


Line engraving published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume III, page 574.
This action, which took place in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, left Carondelet seriously damaged.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 154KB; 740 x 585 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 2039

"Battle between the Carondelet and Arkansas"


Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's "Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States ..." (1877), depicting USS Carondelet in action with CSS Arkansas on the Yazoo River, Mississippi, 15 July 1862.
Walke commanded Carondelet at this time.
Note that Arkansas is depicted with greatly exaggerated freeboard.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59041

"Reception of General Michael Corcoran, by the Mayor and Citizens of New York City, August 22, 1862, on His Release from the Confederate Prison, in which he had been Confined One Year"
(upper engraving)
and
"Action Between the CSS Arkansas and the USS Carondelet at the Mouth of the Yazoo River, July 15, 1862"

Contemporary line engravings published in "The Soldier in the Civil War", Volume I.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 160KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 73378

CSS Arkansas running through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, 15 July 1862


Line engraving after a drawing by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume III, page 556.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 154KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 58892

"The Rebel Ram 'Arkansas' Running Through the Union Fleet off Vicksburg"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the passage of CSS Arkansas through the Federal fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 15 July 1862.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 460 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 79911

"The Arkansas ran the Gauntlet of the Whole Fleet"


Artwork published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 31, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907.
It depicts CSS Arkansas during her passage through the Federal fleet above Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 15 July 1862.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 164KB; 740 x 510 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 59042

"The Union Gun-boat 'Essex' (Commander Porter) Destroying the Rebel Iron-clad Ram 'Arkansas', in the Mississippi"


Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
CSS Arkansas was run ashore and burned to prevent capture when her engines failed during this encounter with USS Essex, on 6 August 1862.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 137KB; 740 x 580 pixels

 

For additional pictures of CSS Arkansas, see: CSS Arkansas (1862-1862).


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


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