Confederate iron-clad Stonewall – Antique Wall Art
![Confederate iron-clad Stonewall, [photographed 1865 June, printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/69/6995f67295af-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Confederate iron-clad Stonewall, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Confederate iron-clad Stonewall
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The ship in this photograph is the CSS *Stonewall*, one of the few ironclads the Confederacy ever commissioned. It was built in France as the *Sphinx* and was bought by Confederate agents, but it reached the Atlantic too late to take part in the war's major naval actions. By mid-1865, when this view was taken, the Confederacy had collapsed, and the ship's future was caught up in the diplomatic and naval disputes that followed the surrender. Its image is a useful record of the South's last attempt to match Northern naval power with modern armor.
| Created / published | [photographed 1865 June, printed later] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1860-1910. |
| Notes | No. 912. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Subjects | Armored vessels--Confederate--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,647 × 3,742 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-221431 |
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