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Capture of Ram Tennessee Mobile bay – Historic Reproduction

Capture of Ram Tennessee Mobile bay, [1864 August 5] — historic drawing
Capture of Ram Tennessee Mobile bay, [1864 August 5]. Historic drawing from the Mobile collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Capture of Ram Tennessee Mobile bay, a historic drawing rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The small pen-and-Chinese-white drawing on brown paper shows the Confederate ironclad ram *Tennessee* in the aftermath of its surrender in Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864. The ship was the most powerful Confederate vessel defending the bay, and its armor and iron ram were meant to break the Union blockade. Instead, it was battered by Union warships under Admiral David Farragut and finally forced to surrender, a loss that helped seal the fall of Mobile as a Gulf port.

Created / published[1864 August 5]
Medium1 drawing on brown paper : pen and Chinese white ; 6.2 x 20.9 cm. (sheet).
GenreDrawings American 1860-1870.
SubjectsTennessee (Ironclad Ram)--1860-1870. Ships--1860-1870. Armored vessels--1860-1870. Shipwrecks--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Surrenders.United States--Alabama--Mobile Bay
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,013 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110810

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