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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE MONSTER IRONCLAD CHOCTAW 100-poiiuder in her forward casemate. She liad a second casemate forward of the wheel where shemounted two 24-pounder howitzers, and a third casemate abaft the wheel containing two 30-pounderParrott rifled guns. Under Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Ramsay, she was active in the flotilla co-operating with General W. T. Sherman against Haynes Bluff and Drumgoulds Bluff, Mississippi, to dis-tract attention from Grants famous movement to the south of Vicksburg. She accompanied the expeditionthat captured Yazoo City on May 21, 186;3, and destroyed $2,000,000 worth of Confederate vessels, yards,mills, and other property. On June 7, 1863, she, with the little Lexington, drove off the Confederate at-tack on Millikens Beiid, Louisiana. In 1864, she accompanied Admiral Porter on the Red River expedition.
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