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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

An ironclad gunboat billowing smoke or steam rams through a waterway surrounded by an enemy gunboat, a tall ship and another ship. Water is splashing up where ammo has hit he river.

Billowing Smoke

Confederate ironclad gunboat CSS Arkansas runs through the Union fleet above Vicksburg, Miss., July 15, 1862.

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