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Photo # 111-B-1961:  Federal ironclads, including USS Saugus, in the James River, Virginia, circa early 1865

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USS Saugus (1864-1891) -- Distant Views


This page features views of USS Saugus that show her distantly, or as an element of a view that is mainly of another subject.

For other pictures of USS Saugus, see:

  • USS Saugus (1864-1891).


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

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    Photo #: 111-B-1961

    Federal ironclads in the James River, Virginia


    Photographed circa early 1865, probably in Trent's Reach.
    Ships are (from left to right): USS Saugus, USS Sangamon (probably), USS Atlanta and USS Onondaga.
    Photographed by the Matthew Brady organization.

    Photograph from the Collections of the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57251

    A "Double-Ender" gunboat


    In the James River, Virginia, 1864-65. Originally identified as USS Agawam (1864-1867), this ship differs from her in detail. It has been identified in published sources as USS Mackinaw (1864-1867).
    The monitor in the right background is USS Saugus (1864-1891).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 550 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 1473-A

    Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia


    View looking south from Building # 1, showing the trophy gun park in the foreground, with coal piles and the sheer crane beyond, circa 1866-69. Most of the guns visible are former Confederate pieces, many of which were still on exhibit at the Washington Navy Yard in the year 2001.
    The monitors Mahopac (center) and Saugus (right) are laid up in the Anacostia River, in the background, with their turrets still painted as they were in 1864-65.
    Courtesy of Robert A. Truax, 1978.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 118KB; 650 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 1473-B

    Online Image of stereo pair: 72KB; 675 x 355 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 93868

    Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia


    Four monitors laid up in the Anacostia River, off the Washington Navy Yard, circa 1866.
    Ships are (from left to right): USS Mahopac, USS Saugus, USS Montauk (probably); and either USS Casco or USS Chimo. Photo mounted on a stereograph card, marked: "Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N.H.".

    Courtesy of Paul H. Silverstone, 1982.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 88KB; 695 x 675 pixels

    A stereo pair version of this image is available as Photo # NH 93868-A

    Online Image of stereo pair: 47KB; 675 x 370 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 57928

    Washington Navy Yard, D.C.


    View looking eastward along the waterfront from atop the roof of the western shiphouse, June 1866. The 11th Street bridge and the Anacostia shore are in the distance.
    Ships in the stream at right include three monitors and a former Confederate torpedo boat of the "large David" type. Monitor to the left in that group is either Chimo or Casco. The other two are Mahopac (center of group) and Saugus (to right). The ex-CSS Stonewall is anchored in the river, in the center of the view.
    Half visible on the marine railway (at left) is a "double-ender" gunboat, probably USS Ascutney. Dismasted screw steamer alongside the waterfront in center may be USS Marblehead. Ship in right foreground, alongside the masting sheers, may be USS Resaca.
    The experimental firing battery is just beyond the shiphouse, in the left center foreground, flanked by what appears to be a ship's smokestack on one side and a mortar and a shot pile on the other. Photographed by Brady & Company, Washington, D.C.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 610 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 #: 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 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

     

    For other pictures of USS Saugus, see:

  • USS Saugus (1864-1891).


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


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