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Sword of Lieutenant Samuel Howard, USN

This Model 1852 naval officers’s sword belonged to Lieutenant Samuel Howard, the Monitor’s pilot during the warship’s legendary engagement with the Merrimack.


Division of the History of Technology, Armed Forces History
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Behring Center
Gift of Mary H. Corbett

 
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