English: Confederate gunboat Bayou City captures USS Harriet Lane during the Battle of Galveston, Texas, 1 January 1863. Engraving depicting Confederates boarding Harriet Lane from C.S. gunboats Neptune and Bayou City.[1]
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↑Guernsey, Alfred H.; Henry Mills Alden (1866) Harper's pictorial history of the Great Rebellion, Rochester, NY: Jas. G. Ardrey, p. 421 OCLC: 37477841.
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