Mobile Blockade

Civil War Harper's Weekly, February 13, 1864

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Union Flag

King Cotton Poem

Brownsville

Mobile Siege

Misgivings

Sanitary Commission Work

Pictures of the Sanitary Commission

General Meigs

Mobile Blockade

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You are viewing an original 1864 illustration of the Blockade of Mobile, Alabama.  The illustration is captioned, "The United States Sloop of War Richmond on Blockade, off Mobile - [See Page 101]".  The picture shows a dramatic image of the Sloop Richmond.