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This print is after a work by artist William H. Overend.

Inscribed., Inscription: In the print recto, below image c: "DAMN THE TORPEDOES, FULL SPEED AHEAD." / Battle of Mobile Bay-5 August 1864 / Exchanging shot at point-blank range with the Confederate flagship, CSS TENNESSEE, is Admiral David G. Farragut shown in the rigging of his flagship, USS HARTFORD. After repeated rammings and incessant pounding by / Union guns, her rudder chains and smoke stack shot away, many of her gun ports smashed, the ship filling with water and smoke, Admiral Buchanan wounded, TENNESSEE surrendered. Denying the use of the port facilities of / Mobile to the Confederacy, one of the largest ports open to Confederate blockade runners, was of immense value to the Union for ces. l.l.: OIL BY WILLIAM H. OVEREND, l.r.: WADSWORTH ATHENEUM / b.c.: ("An August Morning with Farragut" printed by permission of the Wadsworth Atheneum.)