Fort Powell
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Manouvrier, Jules
label: maker
content: Simon, Dionis
notes: label: Description
content: On August 5, 1864, Union Rear Admiral David Farragut launched an attack on the Southern port of Mobile, Alabama, a favorite haven of Confederate blockade runners in the Gulf. Although the Union ironclad, the USS Tecumseh, sank upon entering the Bay, the admiral urged his sailors on, his orders eventually paraphrased into the famous quote, "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!" The Union navy captured the Confederacy’s fearsome ironclad, the CSS Tennessee and the Bay’s defensive forts. The city itself remained under Southern control, but the Bay was effectively closed to blockade runners.
label: Description
content: After a bombardment by Union ships, Confederate forces evacuated Fort Powell and destroyed its cannon, ensuring that they could not be used by the enemy. In this print, a rowboat carries men towards the fort, which is outfitted with a dozen dormitories for its defenders. To the right, a boat sails past.
label: Description
content: Jules Manouvrier (1816-1872) was born in Bremen, Germany and arrived in New Orleans in 1838. Trained as a lithographer, he operated Manouvrier & Co. during the Civil War, producing sheet music covers and banknotes. From 1866 until his death in 1872, he partnered with Dionis Simon (1830-1876), another New Orleans-based lithographer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Louisiana, New Orleans
topic: label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
label: Subject
content: Civil War
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: American Civil War Prints
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3678
label: catalog number
content: 60.3678
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 7 in x 12 1/2 in; 17.78 cm x 31.75 cm