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"Deluded people gave in" Porter's Smoke Pot Ironclad

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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).

See Joseph Brown and His Civil War Ironclads: The USS Chillicothe, Indianola and ... By Myron J. Smith, Jr.page 210 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_NvCDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA209&lpg=PA209&dq=Porter%27s+Smoke+Pot+Ironclad&source=bl&ots=efh1cQ7ABi&sig=ACfU3U3yVoUtI4hEgF7b5u1ISBH_rYBEtw&hl
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/17103260508 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

11 July 2018

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