Rebel Batteries at Craney Island & Sewell's Point
Harpers Weekly
Nov. 2, 1861 |
View of the United States Navy Yard at Gosport, Opposite
Norfolk, VA
Gleason's Pictorials: Boston, July 9, 1853.
Vol. V, No. 2. |
1843 Engraving by J. O. Montalant
of Gosport Navy Yard.
Published in 1845 in Historical Collections of Virginia, by Henry Howe,
Babcock & Co., Charleston, SC, 1846, page 401. |
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Norfolk Navy-yard
Harper's Weekly
March 16, 1861
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Occupation of Norfolk, VA-View of the City-Union
Vessels at Anchor
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room. |
The Monitor at work on the Merrimac (or Virginia)
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Burning of the Gosport Navy Yard by the United States
Authorities
The New York Illustrated News,
May 11, 1861 |
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Occupation of Norfolk, VA
Bird's-eye view of the ruins of the Navy Yard at Gosport.
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Confederate Iron-Plated Steamer (Merrimac) Running
Int0 Federal Sloop Cumberland
The Illustrated London News, April 5, 1862
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Fort Monroe, VA, as seen from the James River.
The Illustrated London News,
May 25, 1861 |
Vessels at Anchor In Hampton Roads
Harper's Weekly
November 16, 1861 |
Views of Portsmouth & Norfolk.
Courtesy of Mariner's Musuem.
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Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War, pp.
94 & 95.
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Frank Leslie's
The Soldier in our Civil War, 1893,
pp. 246 & 247
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Ballou's Pictorial,
Boston, Saturday, January
26, 1856.
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United States Steam Frigate Merrimac (enhanced).
Ballou's Pictorial.
January 26, 1856.
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The Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac."
Drawn by J. Hamilton.
Engraved by Samuel Sartain.
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Gosport Navy Yard, showing the wall of the Yard pierced
for musketry, the ruins of the workshops burned by the Rebels and the
guns fished up from the sunken vessels.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 28, 1862, |
Virginia Sinking the Cumberland,
March 8th, 1863
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Merrimac
and Monitor Duel.
First Battle of Ironclads, Hampton Roads, 1862. |
CS Ironclad Virginia
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Battle Between Merrimac & Monitor
Painting by Thomas C. Skinner
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Virginia Sinking
the Cumberland March 8, 1862 Courtesy of Kirn Library, Sargeant Room |
3. "Virginia" (Merrimac) Passing Fort Norfolk,
March 8, 1862
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Monitor and Merrimac
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Jamestown Exposition Souvenir
Six-fold Post Card Panorama
U. S. Naval Display, Hampton Roads,
1907
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5. "Virginia" (Merrimac)
in Battle with the "Monitor" in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. Painting by
B. A. Richardson. |
1.
"Merrimac" Destroyed at the Burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, April 19,
1861. Painting by B. A. Richardson.
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Destruction of the Merrimac
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Jamestown Exposition Souvenir Postcards (foldout)
Bird's Eye View.
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Hampton Roads map
New York Times
May 10, 1862
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IMPROVING NORFOLK HARBOR, VA and its approaches Dredging
at Portsmouth Flats June 30, 1880
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The City of Richmond
& its Defences
New York Times
May 13, 1863 |
New York Hearld
May 29, 1861 |
Scene of the Explosion of the "Merrimac"
Philadelphia Inquirer
May 12, 1862
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Civil War Map of Hampton Roads |
Norfolk Harbor, 1857
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1891 Map of Hampton [Virginia] N and A Institute
and surrounding region
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The Battle of the Iron-Clad Steamers,
New York Herald,
March 14, 1862.
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Map of Yorktown and Vicinity,
showing the position of Gen. McClellan's Army and The Rebels Under Jeff.
Davis
Harper's Weekly
May 3, 1862, p. 279.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Plan of the Harbor
of Norfolk and Portsmouth,
by Chas. E. Cassell, 1861.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room |
Fort Norfolk, 1860.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room |
Map of Tidewater.
Battles and Commanders of the Civil War.
Courtesy of
Sargeant Memorial Room. |
Southern Branch Portion
of Norfolk Harbor, 1885. |
MAP OF MAIN CHANNEL OF ELIZABETH
RIVER,VA. FROM HAMPTON ROADS TO NORFOLK NAVY YARD. Showing Proposed New
Channel. August 31, 1905 |
Terrific Engagement Between
the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"
in Hampton Roads, Mar. 9, 1862. |
Fortress Monroe and its Vicinity |
Battle Between the
Monitor and Merrimac |
The First Dry Dock in America,
U. S. S. Delaware,
Gosport Navy Yard,
June 17, 1833.
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Ammunition Depot
Norfolk Navy Yard, 1935.
Courtesy 0f
Sargeant Memorial Room.
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CSS Virginia
Blueprint.
Courtesy of
Mariner's Musuem..
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Dock No. 1.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Dock No. 1.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Dock No. 2.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Barracks.
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial
Room.
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.
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Newspaper Cover
New York Times
May 13, 1862.
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Newspaper Cover.
New York Herald,
March 10, 1862. |
Confederate One Dollar Bill |
Marine Barracks, 1926. |
The Iron-Clad Merrimac
Destroying the Cumberland
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The U.S.S. "San Marcos"
(formerly the "Texas")
after Bombardment by
the "New Hampshire".
The Youth's Companion,
April 20, 1911
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Public Works Department
Norfolk Navy Yard
1941
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3 cent United States Postage
US Navy
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