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One of the few photographs taken on the deck of the ironclad USS Monitor, which has been called "Lincoln's secret weapon" in the Civil War. Lincoln himself visited the Monitor on the day this photo was taken (July 9, 1862), but departed just a few hours before the photographer arrived! In the foreground on the right is Siah Carter, a 22-year-old former slave who escaped from a Virginia plantation and joined the Monitor's integrated crew, serving as a cook's assistant and coal heaver until the ironclad's sinking later that year.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by National Marine Sanctuaries at https://flickr.com/photos/44124469278@N01/27172145811. It was reviewed on 22 November 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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