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Photo # NH 85573-KN:  Engraving of USS New Ironsides and monitors in action at Charleston, S.C., circa 1863

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS New Ironsides (1862-1866) --
Actions and Activities off Charleston, S.C.


This page features all our views related USS New Ironsides' Civil War operations off Charleston, South Carolina.

For additional pictures of USS New Ironsides, see:

  • USS New Ironsides (1862-1866).

    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 59298

    "Charleston Harbor, Looking towards the City"


    Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, pages 264-65, depicting the Federal fleet off the harbor mouth at the time of the ironclads' attack on Fort Sumter, 7 April 1863.
    U.S. Navy ships specifically identified include New Ironsides (second from left in the ironclad formation) and Keokuk (ironclad furthest to the right).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 120KB; 900 x 355 pixels

     
    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 42916

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart, redrawn from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion", entitled "Approaches to Charleston, S.C.". It shows the positions of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic, as well as the location where USS New Ironsides spent two hours over a "torpedo" on 7 April 1863.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 147KB; 680 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42917

    Charleston Campaign, 1863-65


    Photostat reproduction of a chart of the approaches to Charleston, South Carolina, detailing the locations of the wrecks of U.S. Navy ships Weehawken, Keokuk, Patapsco and Housatonic; the wreck of CSS Georgiana; where USS New Ironsides, Bibb and USS Massachusetts encountered Confederate "torpedoes" on 7 April 1863, 16 March 1865 and 19 March 1865; and the location of other "torpedoes".

    Copied from the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion".

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 166KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 85573-KN (color)

    "The Iron-Clad Frigate New Ironsides and Two Ericsson Batteries going into action at Charleston"

    Hant-tinted copy of a line engraving by Smyth, depicting USS New Ironsides and two monitors in action at Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1863.

    Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 100KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 58707

    Loss of USS Weehawken, 6 December 1863


    Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 184, depicting the rescue of Weehawken's survivors, off Charleston, South Carolina.
    The large broadside ironclad in the left middle distance is USS New Ironsides.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 410 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 51795

    "Last Gun from Fort Sumter"


    Phototype by F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa the later 19th Century.
    This print depicts a Civil War bombardment of Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbor, South Carolina, by U.S. Navy ships. USS Wabash is in the right foreground, with USS New Ironsides in the right distance. Two monitors are also present.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 555pixels

     

    For additional pictures of USS New Ironsides, see:

  • USS New Ironsides (1862-1866).


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


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