Original! Rare! CIVIL War Union Navy Ironclad Monitor Uss Canonicus Photo

  

CIVIL WAR UNION NAVY IRONCLAD MONITOR " USS CANONICUS " - PHOTO. CIVIL WAR UNION NAVY IRONCLAD MONITOR " USS CANONICUS " IN HAMPTON ROADS VIRGINIA PHOTO JUNE 12, 1907. She engaged Confederate artillery batteries during the year and later participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher, defending the approaches to Wilmington, North Carolina, from December 1864 to January 1865.

Was transferred to the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron at Charleston, South Carolina, after the capture of Fort Fisher in January, and helped to capture one blockade runner. She was sent to Havana, Cuba, to search for the Confederate ironclad CSS.

And became one of the first ironclads to visit a foreign port. HAND OPAQUED ID IN THE LOWER RIGHT NEGATIVE.

PERIOD HAND INSCRIBED OFFICIAL ARCHIVE NUMBER IN THE LOWER RIGHT NEGATIVE. 11 - 13 - 2.

SHARP FOCUS AND VERY GOOD CONTRAST. DIMENSIONS: 7 1/8" x 9 5/16". THIS IS NOT A REPRODUCTION OR A COPY.