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    The USS Commodore Perry was a 512-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and participated in campaigns such as the attack on Roanoke Island in cooperation with the Union Army, which resulted in the Confederate surrender of the island. From 1863 until the end of the war, Commodore Perry engaged in patrols of both inland and coastal Virginia waters. This albumen silver print depicts Commodore Perry on the Pamunkey River and was captured from a glass negative by Civil War photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan.

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    The USS Commodore Perry was a 512-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and participated in campaigns such as the attack on Roanoke Island in cooperation with the Union Army, which resulted in the Confederate surrender of the island. From 1863 until the end of the war, Commodore Perry engaged in patrols of both inland and coastal Virginia waters. This albumen silver print depicts Commodore Perry on the Pamunkey River and was captured from a glass negative by Civil War photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan.

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    USS Commodore Perry

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    The USS Commodore Perry was a 512-ton steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was named after Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and participated in campaigns such as the attack on Roanoke Island in cooperation with the Union Army, which resulted in the Confederate surrender of the island. From 1863 until the end of the war, Commodore Perry engaged in patrols of both inland and coastal Virginia waters. This albumen silver print depicts Commodore Perry on the Pamunkey River and was captured from a glass negative by Civil War photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan.

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    Commodore Perry was a 512-long-ton (520-tonne) steamer acquired by the Union


    Navy during the first year of the American Civil War. She was named after Commodore Oliver
    Hazard Perry, a naval officer who had commanded American forces on Lake Erie in the War of
    1812. From January to February 1862, Commodore Perry was part of the North Atlantic
    Blockading Squadron, taking part in the attack, in cooperation with the Union Army, which
    resulted in the surrender of Roanoke Island by the Confederate States of America. She
    participated in several other campaigns through 1862, including the capture of Elizabeth City,
    North Carolina, and army–navy expeditions against Franklin, Virginia, and Hertford, North
    Carolina. From 1863 until the end of the war, she was engaged in patrols, both inland and in
    Virginia coastal waters. Commodore Perry was decommissioned and sold in 1865. This albumen
    silver print of Commodore Perry on the Pamunkey River was taken from a glass
    negative captured by the Civil War photographer Timothy H. O'Sullivan.

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