File:Crew of the USS Kearsarge at battle stations, circa 1864.jpg
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English: "Ship's crew at their battle stations, shortly after her June 1864 action with CSS Alabama. View looks aft from the forecastle, showing both XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore cannon trained to starboard, as they were during the fight. Portly officer in the center foreground appears to be Acting Master James R. Wheeler. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command"
From https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-52000/NH-52027.html |
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| Source | catalogued as NH 52027 by the Naval History and Heritage Command https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-52000/NH-52027.html |
| Author | Unknown author |
May include Medal of Honor holders:
"Thomas Perry boatswain's mate and John Hayes coxswain first and second captains of No 2 gun George E Read first loader of same gun also Robert Strahan captain top first captain of No 1 gun James H Lee sponger and Joachim Pease colored seaman loader of same gun." Naval War Records Office (1896). Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. pp. 66–67.
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