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Title: Outside of the Galleries of the House of Representatives During the Passage of the Civil Rights Bill.
Description: Originally appeared in Harper's Weekly April 28, 1866. Page 269., M-244-1-04 (physical location)

Title: The Mississippi River
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The delta of the Mississippi - scene at Southwest Bar. Telegraph station at Southwest Bar. Stake Island. Scene after the hurricane of October 5.

Title: Lindell Hotel
Description: Photograph of the Lindell Hotel at Eighth and Washington in 1867 bore it burned down that same year.

Title: Queen of the West
Date: 1863-02-28
Description: The federal ram "Queen of the West" attacking the rebel gunboat "Vicksburg" off Vicksburg.--[See page 139.]

Title: Gun-Boats Fitting Out at Cincinnatti
Description: Gun-boats fitting out at Cincinnati, Ohio, for government service on the Mississippi.

Title: Burning of steamers on the Ohio River at Cincinnati, May 12, 1869.
Date: 1869-05-29
Description: We illustrate on page 349 the disastrous conflagration which took place on the Ohio River, at Cincinnati, on the morning of May 12. A little before two o'clock a fire broke out in the Clifton, caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting of a lamp. Five steamers were lying in close proximity, and above these six others. In less than half an hour the six steamers below were destroyed, nearly all of them being burned to the water's edge. Those on board the Clifton were just able to escape with their lives, so rapid was the conflagration. Before the earliest engines could reach the scene four of the boats were already in flames. The heat was so intense that they could only approach the boats with the greatest difficulty. But their daring was equal to the emergency, and they fought their fierce foe at close quarters. Some of the boats had on board a large quantity of oil, and as the barrels caught fire they floated out into the river, and then down the stream, make it a stream of burning fire. The Kentucky shore was lighted up, and the flames showed its banks filled with spectators drawn from their beds by the magnificent spectacle. A deck-hand was burned to death on the Clifton, and it is reported that five hands on the Cheyenne suffered a similar fate. Three or four men from the Darling were drowned in their attempt to get ashore. The loss of property amounted to nearly $1,000,000, exclusive of cargo.

Title: U.S. Gunboat Cairo
Description: U.S. Gunboat Cairo. Unfortunately, records are not in accord on the U.S.S. Cairo. One possible explanation is that there were two such vessels. This is accountable by the fact that the days of the warbetween the states saw many Federal and Confederate boats changing names as well as affiliations. Official Union Naval records at Washington, D. C., show the Cairo as being built at St. Louis, under Captain James B. Eads and Company. She was officially known as an Eads gunboat, that famous group of vessels that made history on western waters. The Cairo was classified as a steamer, a wooden gunboat, rated like many of her companion vessels of the day as fourth class. Her tonnage is given as 512 and in January of 1862 she carried a battery of six 32-pounders; three 8 inch, 63 hundred weight; four army rifles, 80 hundred weight; and one 12-pounder howitzer. In September of that year she was listed as carrying the six 32-pounders , three army rifles, three 8 inch guns and one 30-pounder Parrot rifle. The Washington records show that the Cairo was sunk within less than five minutes after being struck by a torpedo, 18 miles up the Yazoo river, on December 12, 1862., May be a picture of the U.S. Gunboat Cairo

Title: Cairo
Description: 175 x 50 x 6; 512 tons. Casemate 150' x 50' - 21/4\" plating. Torpedoed Yazoo River 1863. Sides 8' high - single wheel. 9 miles per hour. 13 guns mostly 6\" rifles.

Title: The Fight at Corney's Bridge
Date: 1863-02-14
Description: The fight at Corney's Bridge, Bayou Teche, Louisiana, and the destruction of the rebel gun-boat "Cotton," January 14, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[see page 103.]

Title: Lindell Hotel-1865
Description: 20x16 in photograph of the first Lindell Hotel in 1865 prior to

Title: Vicksburg Canal
Date: 1863-04-04
Description: Break in the Mississippi Levee near the canal at Vicksburg.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]; and Cutting away the dam at the head of the Vicksburg Canal.-Sketched by Mr. Theodore R. Davis.-[See page 215.]

Title: Gioacchino Rossini
Date: 1867-11-09
Description: The great Italian Composer.

Title: The Capture of Vicksburg
Date: 1863-08-01
Description: The capture of Vicksburg - arrival of Admiral Porter's Fleet at the Levee on Fourth July, 1863.

Title: Flag Ship "Harper" Attacked
Date: 1862-06-14
Description: The flag-ship "Harper" attacked by the ram "Manassas" and a fire-raft in the Mississippi.-[see page 373.]

Title: Registered Enemies of the United States
Date: 1863-03-07
Description: Departure of registered enemies of the United States from Port Hickok, to Madisonville, LA.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page]; Landing of registered enemies of the United States at Madisonville, LA., February 2, 1863.-Sketched by our special artist.-[See next page.]

Title: The Mississippi Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Date: 1866-03-03
Description: William Murrill, J.M Bryant, H.G. Jackson, Emporer Williams, E.H. Dicery, R.M. Small, Henry Green, J. Goodwyn, J.P. Newman, Hanly Ryan, Bishop Thomson, N.L. Drakeman, Scott Chitin, W.M. Henry, David Knala, Samuel Osborn, Thomas Kennedy., M-244-1-03 (physical location number).

Title: Emigrants Crossing the Plains
Date: 1869
Description: F.O.C. Darley, fecit. H. B. Hall, Jr. Sc.

Title: Street Scene in Cairo, Illinois and Government Auction on the Levee At Cairo, Illinois
Date: 1866-04-28
Description: Passing along the levee at Cairo, with its dust, filth, and obtrusive drinking-saloons, gaping wide open for victims to trash within, ti would appear to a stranger, from the great number of such places, that the people of Cairo had powers not accorded elsewhere to ordinary mortals of resisting the effects of 'tangle-leg,' 'red-eye,' 'twist-knee,' and other brands peculiar to the locality. Outside of each place are gathered a knot of hard-looking fellows. There is a suspicious air of 'lying-in-wait' common to these frequenters of the levee which is not calculated to inspire confidence in a stranger.

Title: U. S. Gunboat Lexington
Description: U. S. Gunboat Lexington. One of the first Union boats to put in at Cairo, after the outbreak of hostilities was the U. S. Gunboat Lexington, originally a packet steamer, a wooden vessel built at Pittsburg in 1860 and regularly used as a passenger and freight boat. She was sold to the government in 1861 and the War Department ordered her with the U. S. Gunboat Conestoga and the Gunboat Taylorto the Cairo-Mound City vicinity for conversion into a gunboat, after the declaration of War. The Lexington was of lesser tonnage than the Conestoga and when deeply laden had a draft of only six feet. Her maximum speed was seven knots per hour. The contracted cost of remodeling her into a gunboat amounted to $2213.44 which included new siding, decking and a paint job in addition to innumerable other repairs. What the Lexington lacked in size, however, she offset by her heavy armamant and her work during the war was among the best. After a series of meritorious engagements she was finally laid up and went out of commission in July of 1865. For the sum of $6000 (she originally cost more than $20, 000) the Lexington was sold at auction at Mound City a month later to Thomas Scott and Woodburn.

Title: Execution of Gordon the Slavetrader, New York, February 21, 1862
Date: 1862-03-08, 1862-03-08
Description: Originally appeared in Harper's Weekly March 8, 1862.

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