Ruins of Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, December 1864. [Scene from the American Civil War: ruined buildings after commander Charles Stewart McCauley ordered the burning of the shipyard on 21 April 1861]. Albumen print, pl. 18 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866).

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