Page 61: Gun from "Keokuk"

Description:

Photograph of the 11 inch Dahlgren salvaged by the Confederates from the USS Keokuk, an ironclad damaged and sunk during the attack on Fort Sumter in April of 1863. Sams' handwritten notation beneath the image reads, "Gun from 'Keokuk' on Battery."

Gift of Franklin Taliaferro Sams.

• Title: Page 61: Gun from "Keokuk"
• Creator: Sams, Franklin Frost (Dr.), 1867-1937
• Date: c. 1899

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• Collection: Photograph Album Collection
• Object Name: F.F. Sams Photograph Album
• Object Id: 2018.3.65

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