1/3/2024 0 Comments Cdv union navy civil warGiraud, signed by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, which was forwarded to Pierre Giraud. Also present is an appointment as Master’s Mate for Henry E. A complete listing of the cdv’s is available on request. Some are signed, and most are identified in pencil on the mats. Commander Rogers Commodore Winslow Captain C.P. Besides the rare photograph of the captured vessel, the album contains portraits of many naval officers, some notable, others more obscure, including a Lt. He was given temporary command of the vessel before returning to his previous post, now renamed U.S.S. Tennessee at the Battle of Mobile Bay, and was dispatched to accept the surrender of the ironclad when she ran up a white flag after her guns had jammed and her rudder was blown away. Ossipee when it rammed the ironclad C.S.S. forces took New Orleans), and was on board the U.S.S. Tennessee (captured from the Confederates when U.S. Mauntock, firing the rounds that doomed the notorious Confederate Privateer Rattlesnake (formerly the C.S.S. Navy during the Civil War, serving with distinction aboard the monitor U.S.S. Pierre Giraud, owner of the album (with an inscription to him on the front flyleaf), was a Volunteer Lieutenant in the U.S. Tennessee, captured by Union forces at the famed Battle of Mobile Bay. naval officers, along with one of the ironclad ram U.S.S. Important Civil War album containing a rare assemblage of original carte-de-visite photographs of U.S. 6x4½, embossed leather with metal clasps, all edges gilt. Mobile), and a façade identified as the Louvre. Tennessee), a cdv of a lithograph of the steamer U.S.S. naval officers, most identified, also a cdv of the ironclad U.S.S. Album with 25 double-sided window mats, containing 42 (of a possible 50) original cartes-de-visite, all but a few of U.S.
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