USS Essex

USS Essex, the ironclad which on two occasions engaged the CSS Arkansas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; circa 1864.

Ironclad boat tied to the shore with sailors on board and other boats in background

From the Civil War photograph collection (BC.PHO.3.a), courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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