NORFOLK NAVY YARD

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Engravings


Rebel Batteries at Craney Island & Sewell's Point
Harpers Weekly
Nov. 2, 1861

View of the United States Navy Yard at Gosport, Opposite Norfolk, VA
Gleason's Pictorials: Boston, July 9, 1853.
Vol. V, No. 2.

1843 Engraving by J. O. Montalant of Gosport Navy Yard.
Published in 1845 in Historical Collections of Virginia, by Henry Howe,
Babcock & Co., Charleston, SC, 1846, page 401.


Norfolk Navy-yard
Harper's Weekly
March 16, 1861



Occupation of Norfolk, VA-View of the City-Union Vessels at Anchor
Courtesy of Sargeant Memorial Room.



The Monitor at work on the Merrimac (or Virginia)


Burning of the Gosport Navy Yard by the United States Authorities
The New York Illustrated News,
May 11, 1861

 



Occupation of Norfolk, VA
Bird's-eye view of the ruins of the Navy Yard at Gosport.

 


Confederate Iron-Plated Steamer (Merrimac) Running Int0 Federal Sloop Cumberland

The Illustrated London News, April 5, 1862


Fort Monroe, VA, as seen from the James River.
The Illustrated London News,
May 25, 1861

Vessels at Anchor In Hampton Roads
Harper's Weekly
November 16, 1861


Views of Portsmouth & Norfolk.
Courtesy of Mariner's Musuem.


Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War, pp. 94 & 95.


Frank Leslie's
The Soldier in our Civil War, 1893,
pp. 246 & 247



Ballou's Pictorial, Boston, Saturday,
January 26, 1856.

 


United States Steam Frigate Merrimac (enhanced).
Ballou's Pictorial.
January 26, 1856.

The Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac."
Drawn by J. Hamilton.
Engraved by Samuel Sartain.


Gosport Navy Yard, showing the wall of the Yard pierced for musketry, the ruins of the workshops burned by the Rebels and the guns fished up from the sunken vessels.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 28, 1862,

Norfolk Navy Yard Table of Contents

 Battle of the Hampton Roads Ironclads

The Norfolk Navy Yard into the 20th Century