Farragut's Gun Boats

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Civil War Harper's Weekly, May 10, 1862

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Confederate Negro Soldiers

Democratic Party's Position on Slavery

Black Confederate Soldiers

Mississippi River Map

Slave Confederate Soldiers

Quincy Gilmore

Attack on Fort Wright

Richmond.

Pensacola.

Colorado.

Flag-ship Hartford.

Octorora.

FLAG-OFFICER FARRAGUT'S GULF SQUADRON, AND COMMODORE PORTER'S MORTAR FLEET.—FROM A SKETCH BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST ON BOARD THE FLAG-SHIP.—[SEE PAGE 303.]

Fort Jackson.

Rebel Gun-boats.

Fort St. Philip.

United States Gun-boat Kennebeck.

Winona.

RECONNOISSANCE OF FORTS JACKSON AND ST. PHILIP, ON THE MISSISSIPPI, BY GUN-BOATS FROM FLAG-OFFICER FARRAGUT'S SQUADRON.—SKETCHED BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST WITH THE SQUADRON.—[SEE PAGE 303.]

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