[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.

2 3/8 x 3 1/2 in. trimmed oval albumen photograph on cardstock mount (spotting, light wear to edges and corners). Verso with Lilienthal's pictorial imprint. The Milwaukee is shown here in the Mississippi River area.

The USS Milwaukee, a double-turreted river monitor commissioned August 27, 1864, was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron and traveled from Mound City to New Orleans in October. It struck a mine 28 March 1865, while retreating to Mobile Bay from an attack on a Confederate transport in the Blakely River, but it sank slowly and all hands were rescued. It was raised in 1868 and returned to the same man who built her, James Eads of St. Louis, who used the scrap in the construction of the Eads Bridge across the Mississippi.

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[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.

American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.

[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.

American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.

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[CIVIL WAR]. LILIENTHAL, Theodore, photographer. CDV of the USS Milwaukee. New Orleans, Louisiana: ca 1860s.