Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Essex (1861-1865) -- Part II


This page features additional views relating to USS Essex.

For other images of USS Essex, see:

  • USS Essex (1861-1865).

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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 59002

    "Commodore Foote's Gun-boat Flotilla on the Mississippi"


    Line engraving after a sketch by Alexander Simplot, published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862.
    Ships are identified below the image as (from left to right): Mound City, Essex, Cairo, Saint Louis, Louisville, Benton, Pittsburg and Lexington.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 270 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42366

    Battle of Fort Henry, 6 February 1862


    Line engraving after a drawing by Rear Admiral Henry Walke, published in the "History of the Great Rebellion", by Harper.
    The print depicts the Federal gunboats Saint Louis, Carondelet, Essex and Cincinnati bombarding Fort Henry.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 175KB; 740 x 460 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

     
    Photo #: NH 59043

    "Recapture of Baton Rouge, La., December 17th, 1862 -- Federal troops under General Grover driving off the Confederates and occupying the city"


    Line engraving, after a sketch by F. H. Schell, published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I. The ironclad gunboat USS Essex is depicted at right, just off shore.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 158KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59083

    "Sectional View of a Torpedo found in the Mississippi by the Gun-boat 'Essex'"


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1863. The lower part of the print is entitled "Interior of the Clock-work".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 198KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     

    For other images of USS Essex, see:

  • USS Essex (1861-1865).


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


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    14 June 2000