Image: NavalBattleOfFortPillow

Description: "Battle of Fort Pillow, First position". The action between the Confederate River Defense Fleet and Federal ironclads near Fort Pillow, Tennessee, 10 May 1862. Confederate ships, seen at right, include (from left to right): General Earl Van Dorn, General Sterling Price, General Bragg, General Sumter and Little Rebel. The Federal ironclads, in the center and left, are (from left to right): Mound City, Carondelet and Cincinnati. A Federal mortar boat is by the river bank in the lower right.
Title: NavalBattleOfFortPillow
Credit: U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #: NH 2049
Author: Engraving published in Rear Admiral Henry Walke's "Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War in the United States
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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