2-356-077 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Burnside's expedition crossing Hatteras Bar, North Carolina, 1861-1862 (c1880). Union General Ambrose Burnside commanded an amphibious campaign that succeeded in closing most of the North Carolina coast to Confederate shipping for the remainder of the American Civil War. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.