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Schooner Head, Mount Desert, Maine

1877
Graphite on cream woven paper
25.2 x 38.0 cm. (9 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

Princeton University, Art Museum

Princeton, NJ

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Battle of Mobile Bay, 5 August 1864

1890
Oil
40 x 66 in. (cm. 101.6 x 167.6)

United States Naval Academy - Museum

Annapolis, MD

notes
The Battle of Mobile Bay of August 5, 1864, was an engagement of the American Civil War in which a Federal fleet commanded by Rear Adm. David G. Farragut, assisted by a contingent of soldiers, attacked a smaller Confederate fleet led by Adm. Franklin Buchanan and three forts that guarded the entrance to Mobile Bay.
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Final Assault upon Fort Fisher, North Carolina

1872-73
oil on canvas
56 x 123 1/2 in. (142.2 x 313.7 cm.)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia, PA

notes
View looking toward the coast of North Carolina, with sailing ships barely visible amid clouds of smoke as they fire on Fort Fisher during the Civil War, just before the fall of the fort to the Union forces in 1865.
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Goslin Zouave of the 95th Regiment

1861
Watercolor
5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.

The West Point Museum

West Point, NY

notes
Inscription: (Lower right:) X. S. 1861 (Lower left:) James Harmer/One of Goslin's Zouaves./95th Reg; P. V. signed
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U. S. Gunboat "Norwich"

ca. 1863
Oil
no dimensions avaliable

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
USS Norwich, a wooden, screw steamer built at Norwich, CT., in 1861, was purchased by the United States Navy at New York City 26 September 1861 from J. M. Huntington & Co.; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard 28 December 1861, Lieutenant James M. Duncan in command.
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U.S.S. Kearsarge Sinking the Alabama

Oil
36 x 21 in. (cm. 91 x 53.3)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
USS Kearsarge, a Mohican-class sloop-of-war, is best known for her defeat of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama during the American Civil War. The Kearsarge was the only ship of the United States Navy named for Mount Kearsarge in New Hampshire. Subsequent ships were later named Kearsarge in honor of the ship.
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USS Metacomet at Pensacola Florida, 30 August 1864

30 August 1864
no dimensions avaliable

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
The second USS Metacomet was a wooden sidewheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. The ship was named for Metacomet, a war chief of the Wampanoag Indians.
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