American Civil War,CUMBERLAND,SARATOGA,Ships,JAMESTOWN,Newport News,Virginia
Title: U.S. Corvettes Cumberland and Sarataga engaging rebel steamer Jamestown--off Newport News
Creator(s): Balling, Ole Peter Hansen, 1823-1906, artist
Date Created/Published: [1861 September 13]
Summary: Cannons being fired from fort in foreground at ships in background.
Notes:
Signed lower left: Captain Balling.
Title inscribed on verso.
Inscribed lower right: Newport News.
Balling served as Captain of the 1st New York Regiment Infantry Volunteers from April to November 1861. He reenlisted as a Lieutenant Colonel of the 145th New York Regiment Infantry Volunteers, serving from September 1862 to January 1863 (source: American Civil War Research Database).
Published in: New York Illustrated News, 30 September 1861, p. 337.
Source unknown.
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file 1861.
Subjects:
Cumberland (Ship)--1860-1870.
Saratoga (Ship)--1860-1870.
Jamestown (Steamer)--1860-1870.
Blockade running--1860-1870.
Naval warfare--1860-1870.
Forts & fortifications--1860-1870.
Artillery (Weaponry)--1860-1870.
Soldiers--1860-1870.
Ships--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations.
United States--Virginia--Newport News
Drawings--American--1860-1870.
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