USS Carondelet running the Confederate batteries

USS Carondelet running the Confederate batteries at the Battle of Island Number Ten on 4 April, 1862. American Civil War. USS Carondelet needed to pass the batteries in order to help the land forces cross the Mississippi River by removing the threat of Confederate gunboats and suppressing artillery fire. Illustration by Harry Fenn after a sketch by Rear-Admiral Walke, HF: English born American illustrator, 1845–1911. Taken from 'Battles and Leaders of the Civil War', vol. I, ed. Robert Underwood Johnson & Clarence Clough Buel, published by the Century Co in New York, 1888, p.440.