Our artist aloft - Our special artist, Mr. W. Waud, sketching the naval engagement between the Federal Fleet and the Rebel forts, rams and gunboats, in the Mississippi River, from the foretop of the U. S. war steamer Mississippi, Commander Melancton Smith. May 1862. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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