Hampton Roads, Virginia. Ammunition schooners, American Civil War Glass Negative.

Photo shows boats anchored off City Point, Virginia, including the schooner William Spear of Baltimore (name on stern); a sidewheel steamboat (left center) with the likely name Metamora; astern of her, the hospital ship New World, from the Hudson River; and a converted unknown New York City tugboat (foreground). Transports include sidewheel steamer Ocean Wave (right center). The gunboats and hospital ship are in service to the Union Navy. (Source: C. Ipcar, 2016)
Title from Civil War caption books.
Caption from negative sleeve: Ammunition schooners in Hampton Road's Dec. 1864.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4175.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).