Smokestack from the CSS Virginia II

GLC05111.01.0987

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0987-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1861-1865
Title
Smokestack from the CSS Virginia II
Place Written
Richmond, Virginia
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 8.9 cm, Width: 8.6 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

The image is the smokestack of the destroyed CSS Virginia II. It was photographed after the capture of Richmond by the Union. Numeric notation on recto: "264." Inscription on verso: "Smokestack of the Rebel ram "Virginia." Numeric notations on verso: "80" "264" and "75."

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