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Photo # NH 42240:  USS New Ironsides and monitors bombarding Fort Fisher, Dec. 1864 - Jan. 1865

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USS New Ironsides (1862-1866) --
Actions and Activities during the Fort Fisher Operation, December 1864 -- January 1865


This page features all the views we have related to USS New Ironsides' participation in the operations to capture Fort Fisher, N.C.

For views concerning USS New Ironsides' crew members who received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the December 1864 and January 1865 assaults on Fort Fisher, see:

  • Signal Quartermaster Thomas English, USN (Born 1819); and
  • Quarter Gunner Edmund Haffee, USN (Born 1832).

    For additional pictures concerning 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 1557-A

    Fort Fisher Operation, December 1864 -- January 1865


    Ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to attack Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in December 1864. The ships present are (from left to right):
    A twin-turret monitor, probably USS Monadnock;
    USS New Ironsides and
    a steam sloop of war.
    This image is cropped from Photo # NH 1557.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1557

    Fort Fisher Operation, December 1864 -- January 1865


    Ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, en route to attack Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in December 1864. Among the ships present are a side-wheel cruiser (converted merchantman) at left, one steam frigate (in center) and several steam sloops and gunboats. The twin-turret monitor in the right center distance is probably USS Monadnock. USS New Ironsides is the next large ship to her right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42241

    Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865


    Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, circa 1865, entitled "Monitor Iron-Clads and the New Ironsides, Forming part of the Fleet of Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, U.S.N. riding out a Gale of Wind, at Anchor off Fort Fisher, Coast of North Carolina, December 21, 1864." The print is dedicated by the publisher to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus V. Fox.
    Monitors in the foreground and middle distance are (from left to right) Monadnock (twin-turret), Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus. Ships in the distance (from left to left-center) are: Brooklyn, New Ironsides, Juniata, Tacony and Malvern.

    Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42240

    Fort Fisher operation, December 1864 -- January 1865


    19th-Century painting, by an unidentified artist, depicting U.S. Navy ironclads bombarding Fort Fisher during one of the two assaults that ended in its capture. Twin-turret monitor in the center foreground is Monadnock. Large broadside ironclad beyond is New Ironsides. The three single-turret monitors are Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus.

    Presented by Albert Rosenthal, January 1935.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 515 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59170

    "Second Attack upon Fort Fisher, showing the positions of the vessels, and the lines of fire", 13-15 January 1865


    Chart by Walter A. Lane, published in "The Soldier in our Civil War", Volume II.
    The positions of 58 ships are represented on the chart.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 216KB; 825 x 1225 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2051

    "The Bombardment of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865"


    Engraving by T. Shussler, after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War". It depicts ships of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, prior to the ground assault that captured the fortification.
    Identifiable ships include:
    USS Monadnock (twin-turret monitor in the right center);
    USS Vanderbilt (grey two-stack side-wheel steamer in right foreground); and
    USS New Ironsides (at the right end of the main battle line).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 435 pixels

     
    Photo #: LC-USZ62-144

    "Bombardment of Fort Fisher"

    "Jan. 15th 1865"

    Lithograph after a drawing by T.F. Laycock, published by Endicott & Co., New York, 1865, depicting the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron bombarding Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in preparation for its capture. The print is dedicated to Commodore S.W. Godon, USN.
    Ships present, as named on the original print, are identified in Photo Number LC-USZ62-144 (Complete Caption).

    Collections of the Library of Congress.

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50468-KN (Color)

    Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 15 January 1865

    Watercolor by eyewitness Ensign John W. Grattan, of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's staff, depicting Porter's fleet bombarding the fort prior to the ground assault. Side-wheel steamer in the right foreground is Porter's flagship, USS Malvern. USS New Ironsides and USS Monadnock are in the right distance.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Grattan Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50467-KN (Color)

    Capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 15 January 1865

    Watercolor by eyewitness Ensign John W. Grattan, of Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's staff, depicting the storming of the fort, as the bombarding fleet stands offshore. Side-wheel steamer in the center, flying signal flags, is Porter's flagship, USS Malvern. USS New Ironsides is at right.

    Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Grattan Collection.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     


    For views concerning USS New Ironsides' crew members who received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the December 1864 and January 1865 assaults on Fort Fisher, see:

  • Signal Quartermaster Thomas English, USN (Born 1819); and
  • Quarter Gunner Edmund Haffee, USN (Born 1832).

    For additional pictures concerning 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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    Link added 30 April 2008