DescriptionAdmiral Porter's Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels.jpg
English: Admiral [David Dixon] Porter's Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg. This shows a wooden dummy "ironclad" made from an old coal barge.
LC-USZ62-138379: Admiral Porter’s Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg. Note the dummy ship that reads, “Deluded People Gave in” and the Pirate Flag, 1863. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (4/23/2015).
The Black Terror, depicts the so called Black Terror, the second of two sham gunboats.
"Deluded people gave in", Porter's Smoke Pot Ironclad sent down the Mississippi in the direction of the Indianola wreck. It reportedly cost $8.63, designed to reveal the locations of Southern artillery emplacements (See Harper's Weekly, April 11, 1863).
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2008-08-04 06:54 Hugh Manatee 923×594× (105329 bytes) ''Admiral [David Dixon] Porter's Second Dummy Frightening the Rebels at Vicksburg'', a wood engraving after a sketch by Theodore R. Davis, published in ''Harper's Weekly'' on April 11, 1863. This shows a wooden dummy "ironclad" made from a raft.
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