Collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Ship's officers pose on deck, at Cherbourg, France, soon after her 19 June 1864 victory over CSS Alabama . Her Commanding Officer, Captain John A. Winslow, is 3rd from left, wearing a uniform of the 1862 pattern. Other officers are generally dressed in uniforms of 1863-64 types.
View looks aft on the port side.
At left is Kearsarge 's after XI-inch Dahlgren pivot gun, with its training tracks on the deck alongside. The original glass negative is held by the Library of Congress. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Ship's crew at their battle stations, shortly after her June 1864 action with CSS Alabama . View looks aft from the forecastle, showing both XI-inch Dahlgren smoothbore cannon trained to starboard, as they were during the fight.