NORFOLK NAVY YARD

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Engravings

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.
Norfolk Navy-yard Harper's Weekly March 16, 1861	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)	Burning of the Gosport Navy Yard by the United States Authorities The New York Illustrated News, May 11, 1861
	Occupation of Norfolk, VA Bird's-eye view of the ruins of the Navy Yard at Gosport.	Confederate Iron-Plated Steamer (Merrimac) Running Int0 Federal Sloop Cumberland The Illustrated London News, April 5, 1862	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.	Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War, pp. 94 & 95.	Frank Leslie's The Soldier in our Civil War, 1893, pp. 246 & 247
Ballou's Pictorial, Boston, Saturday, January 26, 1856.	United States Steam Frigate Merrimac (enhanced). Ballou's Pictorial. January 26, 1856.	The Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac." Drawn by J. Hamilton. Engraved by Samuel Sartain.	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,

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