USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia
- Title
- USS Merrimack aka CSS Virginia
- Description
- Original pen & ink sketch of the USS Merrimack, also known as the CSS Virginia. The sketch was made in 1862 by Confederate naval officer John Luke Porter (1831-1893) who helped convert the U.S. Navy frigate into the Confederate ironclad ram warship.
- Date
- 1862
- Original Format
- drawings
- Extent
- 10cm x 5cm
- Local Identifier
- 0850-s1-b2-fa-i1
- Creator(s)
- Subject(s)
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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- Location of Original
- John Luke Porter Papers from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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