French & Co. [Ironclad USS Louisville outside Vicksburg]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0094 Author/Creator: French & Co. Place Written: Vicksburg, Mississippi Type: Photograph Date: 1864 Pagination: 1 albumen print ; 25.3 x 30.4 cm. Order a Copy
A print of a photograph of the USS Louisville, a City-class ironclad gunboat laid down in September of 1861. Many sailors and/or officers can be see standing on the deck, the Louisville had a crew of 251. Inscription on recto: "Louisville iron clad gun boat 12 guns. Mississippi Squadron, 1864." The Louisville actually had at 14 guns at any point during the war, including all of 1864. Vicksburg looms in the backgorund. Note this image has been mounted over an oval photograph of a soldier.
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