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Photos

Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A ship covered in iron with two flags, two smokestacks and several sailors standing on it sails down a river.

River Gunboat

The Union ironclad river gunboat USS Carondelet patrols a river in the western theater of the Civil War.

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