AndyHall
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- Dec 13, 2011
Happened on this while looking for something else. New image to me. Harper's Weekly, June 13, 1863:
SINKING TORPEDOES AT CHARLESTON.
WE are indebted to the artist correspondent of a London illustrated paper [Russell?] for the picture on page 380, representing THE SINKING OF TORPEDOES BY MOONLIGHT IN THE HARBOR OF CHARLESTON. It seems that before the recent attack by Admiral Du Pont the rebel General Ripley spent several nights in filling the channel-way of the harbor with all manner of torpedoes and infernal machines, and on one of his expeditions the sympathizing Englishman was allowed to accompany him. Hence the picture.
It was also published in the May 16, 1863 issue of the Illustrated London News:
SINKING TORPEDOES AT CHARLESTON.
WE are indebted to the artist correspondent of a London illustrated paper [Russell?] for the picture on page 380, representing THE SINKING OF TORPEDOES BY MOONLIGHT IN THE HARBOR OF CHARLESTON. It seems that before the recent attack by Admiral Du Pont the rebel General Ripley spent several nights in filling the channel-way of the harbor with all manner of torpedoes and infernal machines, and on one of his expeditions the sympathizing Englishman was allowed to accompany him. Hence the picture.
It was also published in the May 16, 1863 issue of the Illustrated London News: