Wool, with cotton hoist and stars, 15.25 x 21.5 in., inked IVANHOE on the hoist. Framed with a CDV of Lt. J.C. Watson and an ANS written in retirement, recounting his first meeting with Admiral Farragut, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, February 1862; 31.5 x 35.5 in. overall. Ivanhoe was attempting to run the blockade at Mobile Bay just before midnight, June 30, 1864, when she was spotted by the dispatch boat USS Glasgow, which itself had been a blockade runner captured in the same area just 13 months earlier. Glasgow gave chase and forced Ivanhoe aground just in front of Fort Morgan, but the fort's guns prevented the Union forces from capturing her. Admiral Farragut ordered the USS Metacomet and Monongahela to fire upon Ivanhoe from afar, but their attempts were unsuccessful. Unwilling to allow the blockade runner to unload her cargo in plain sight of his entire fleet, however, the admiral authorized Flag Lieutenant John Crittenden Watson to lead a covert expedition to burn her. Shortly after midnight on July 6, the team of small boats sneaked up to the Ivanhoe and set her aflame, causing Farragut to announce to the fleet the next morning that "the entire conduct of the expedition was marked by a promptness and energy which shows what may be expected of such officers and men on similar occasions." Provenance: The Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut and the USS Hartford Condition: Not removed from frame for examination.
Wool, with cotton hoist and stars, 15.25 x 21.5 in., inked IVANHOE on the hoist. Framed with a CDV of Lt. J.C. Watson and an ANS written in retirement, recounting his first meeting with Admiral Farragut, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, February 1862; 31.5 x 35.5 in. overall. Ivanhoe was attempting to run the blockade at Mobile Bay just before midnight, June 30, 1864, when she was spotted by the dispatch boat USS Glasgow, which itself had been a blockade runner captured in the same area just 13 months earlier. Glasgow gave chase and forced Ivanhoe aground just in front of Fort Morgan, but the fort's guns prevented the Union forces from capturing her. Admiral Farragut ordered the USS Metacomet and Monongahela to fire upon Ivanhoe from afar, but their attempts were unsuccessful. Unwilling to allow the blockade runner to unload her cargo in plain sight of his entire fleet, however, the admiral authorized Flag Lieutenant John Crittenden Watson to lead a covert expedition to burn her. Shortly after midnight on July 6, the team of small boats sneaked up to the Ivanhoe and set her aflame, causing Farragut to announce to the fleet the next morning that "the entire conduct of the expedition was marked by a promptness and energy which shows what may be expected of such officers and men on similar occasions." Provenance: The Paul DeHaan Collection of Items Related to Admiral D.G. Farragut and the USS Hartford Condition: Not removed from frame for examination.
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