[James River, Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor] (LOC)

    Gibson, James F.,, b. 1828,, photographer.

    [James River, Va. Deck and turret of U.S.S. Monitor]

    1862 July 9.

    1 negative : glass, stereograph, wet collodion ; 4 x 10 in.

    Notes:
     Photo shows the light damage caused to the turret of the ironclad USS Monitor during her fight with the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first battle of two ironclad warships. Launched in January 1862, the Monitor was lost at sea in December that same year. Photograph relates to the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy -- the Federal Navy, 1861-1865.

    Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
    Corresponding print is in LOT 4182.
    Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0536
    Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
    Published in: The Civil War in depth / Bob Zeller. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997-2000, v. 2, p. 81.

    Subjects:
     Government vessels--Union.
    United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
    United States--Virginia--James River.

    Format: Glass negatives--1860-1870.
    Stereographs--1860-1870.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

    Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

    Part Of: Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) (DLC) 94837675

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00305

    Call Number: LC-B815- 659

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      wegnerz, natebeaty, scratchmyfrontlens aka andreas coerper, ThaysLago, and 29 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. jamesvoves (20 months ago | reply)

      It had to be hell to be inside that thing. The smoke from your guns and the sound of the balls hitting that turret.

    3. Atsah Images (20 months ago | reply)

      Fantastic.

    4. Kilted Cowboy (20 months ago | reply)

      I was just watching the Ken Burns Doco The Civil Wat last night. They said any man who willfully went in one was insane as it easily topped 100 degrees.

      one half of this image is on The Naval Historical Center page for her
      www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/mo nitor.htm

      View on deck looking forward on the starboard side, while the ship was in the James River, Virginia, 9 July 1862. The turret, with the muzzle of one of Monitor's two XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore guns showing, is at left. Note dents in turret armor from hits by Confederate heavy guns and crewmembers atop the turret.
      Officers at right are (left to right): Third Assistant Engineer Robinson W. Hands, Acting Master Louis N. Stodder, Second Assistant Engineer Albert B. Campbell (seated) and Acting Volunteer Lieutenant William Flye (with binoculars).
      This photograph forms a stereograph pair with Photo # NH 2780.

      U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph

    5. Howard Dickins (20 months ago | reply)

      Fascinating, especially to gain a sense of scale of the famous ship.

    6. This photo was invited and added to the Civil War Page group.

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