USS_Jamestown_burns_Alvarado.tiff


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English: The bark Alvarado , a Confederate prize, burns in the left distance after the sloop-of-war USS Jamestown , right foreground, ran her ashore and set her afire near Fernandina, Florida, during the w:American Civil War on 5 August 1861.
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Source Naval History and Heritage Command NH 58885 "The United States Sloop of War 'Jamestown' driving the 'Alvarado' Ashore, near Fernandina, Florida."
Author w:Harper's Weekly illustration, credited as "U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph"
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