War on the Mississippi - The last broadside of the Varuna - Commander Charles Stewart Boggs firing the last three guns of the National gunboat Varuna as she sinks - The wounded had been removed, but the dead go down with the vessel, the old flag flying over them. April 24th, 1862. 19th century American Civil War illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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