Caption: Coal Heavers of the Essex--resting.
Notes: The Union fleet off the coaling yard at Baton Rouge in the summer of 1862. Farragut needed the coal he found here to keep his larger vessels operating. [East, "Civil War Album," text, p. 22; image, p. 23.]
Photographer: Ascribed to McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge
Image Format: Carte de visite - 4in. x 2.5in