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Photo # NH 63072:  Apparent veteran of USS Kearsarge's wartime crew

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USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) --
Personnel & Relics

This page features views of personnel and relics related to USS Kearsarge.

Other images of the ship's crewmembers will be seen in: USS Kearsarge -- Views on Board.

For views of individual officers and crewmen of USS Kearsarge, see:

  • Captain John A. Winslow, her Commanding Officer in 1863-64;
  • Captain James S. Thornton, her Executive Officer in 1863-64;
  • Corporal Austin Quinby, USMC, a member of her crew during the Civil War.

    For links to additional pictures of Kearsarge and her activities, see:

  • USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) -- Selected Views.

    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 51113

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Ship's officers, photographed circa 1864. They are identified on Photo # NH 51113 (complete caption).

    Donation of Mrs. J.E. Palmer, from the Collection of Surgeon General John Mills Browne.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 51114

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    Montage of portraits of the ship's officers, circa 1864. They are identified on Photo # NH 51114 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 46716

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    "Survivors of the U.S.S. Kearsarge" -- Veterans of the Kearsarge's Civil War crew pose at a reunion, circa the 1890s. Those present are identified (as numbered) in Photo # NH 46716 (complete caption).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 46717

    USS Kearsarge (1862-1894)


    An apparent veteran of the ship's wartime crew, wearing an enlisted man's "flat hat" with Kearsarge ribbon and two medals. The medal at the photo's right is a Grand Army of the Republic decoration. The other medal features an anchor and bears, on its upper section, the inscription "J.C. Pope Wa?der", or something similar.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 58781

    USS Kearsarge vs. CSS Alabama, 19 June 1864


    Section of Kearsarge's sternpost, with a shell imbedded in it that had been fired by the Alabama during the battle. This rifle shell is about seven inches in diameter and weighs about 56 pounds.
    Photograph was taken circa 1960, by which time the sternpost section had been encased in an expanded metal protective covering. By 1972, it was on exhibit at the U.S. Navy Memorial Museum, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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    Photo #: NH 96016

    Navy Memorial Museum, Building 76, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.


    View in the Civil War exhibit area, March 1980, showing the sternpost of USS Kearsarge with an unexploded shell from CSS Alabama embedded in it, a relic of the 19 June 1864 battle between those two ships.
    Other artificts visible include the Historical Data Plaque of USS Cushing (DD-797), immediately to the right of the Kearsarge sternpost.
    Photographed by PH3c F. Brownson.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 154KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60958

    "The Gun that settled the dispute"


    An Eleven-inch Dahlgren smoothbore gun in an artillery park, probably at the New York Navy Yard, sometime after the Civil War. Photograph published by E.H. Hart, 1162 Broadway, New York, circa the later 1880s.
    This gun is presumably one of the two XI" Dahlgrens carried by USS Kearsarge during her battle with CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France, on 19 June 1864.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 147KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     

    Other images of this ship's crewmembers will be seen in: USS Kearsarge -- Views on Board.

    For views of individual officers and crewmen of USS Kearsarge, see:

  • Captain John A. Winslow, her Commanding Officer in 1863-64;
  • Captain James S. Thornton, her Executive Officer in 1863-64;
  • Corporal Austin Quinby, USMC, a member of her crew during the Civil War.

    For links to additional pictures of Kearsarge and her activities, see:

  • USS Kearsarge (1862-1894) -- Selected Views.


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


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    Links added 20 September 2006