"After you, sir.". Book illustration from Library of Congress

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"After you, sir.". Book illustration from Library of Congress

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Sketch of Captain T.A.M. Craven and his pilot, climbing a ladder on the Tecumseh.
Title inscribed below image.
Inscribed below inset: Torpedo boat at Brooklyn Navy Yard that destroyed the Housatonic.
Inscribed right margin: Captain Tunis Augustus MacDonough Craven (sp?) started to go up the ladder of the Tecumseh, which had struck a torpedo in Mobile Bay, & gave way to the pilot. The latter escaped & Craven was drowned.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1100)
Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file P.
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

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01/01/1865
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Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist
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Library of Congress
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