(CIVIL WAR ART) [Simplot Alexander] Gun Boat Carondolet Pas

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(CIVIL WAR--ART.) [Simplot, Alexander.] Gun Boat Carondolet Passing Rebel Batteries at Island No. 10. Pencil drawing, 4 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, with pencil caption on verso; minor soiling, crease in upper left corner. [New Madrid, MO], March [4 April] 1862

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Island Number 10 was an important Confederate fortification in the midst of a sharp bend in the Mississippi. The ironclad Carondolet was the first Union vessel to pass it, which soon led to the garrison's surrender. with--the page of Harper's Weekly featuring the engraving of this sketch, 26 April 1862, which also provides the attribution of Simplot as the artist.