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Marker is located at Battery Selfridge (Tour Stop 7).
Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: October 25, 2017
Caption: Marker is located at Battery Selfridge (Tour Stop 7).
Additional Description: This battery consisted entirely of naval cannon and was manned by sailors of the U.S. Navy. It is named in honor of Lt. Commander Thomas O. Selfridge Jr., one of the naval officers stationed here and the man in command of the ironclad Cairo when it was sunk in the Yazoo River on December 12, 1862.
Submitted: October 29, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p401789
File Size: 16.606 Megabytes

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