U.S. Navy Ironclad Steamer USS Essex: Wash drawing by R.G. Skerrett of her operation with Adm. Farraguts fleet on the lower Mississippi River in 1862-63. (USS Mississippi in background.)
Categories: Civil War
 
 
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