View of civilians posing with the Union ironclad USS Atlanta in dry dock at the League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1865. It had been captured from the Confederate Navy during an 1863 battle in Wassaw Sound when it had been designated as the CSS Atlanta.
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