The Confederate raider Nashville burning the American commercial vessel Harvey Birch, November 19, 1861, artist's impression

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Burning of the American merchantman "Harvey Birch," of New York, in the British Channel by the Confederate steamer "Nashville," November 17, 1861.
Source citation
Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War ... (New York: Mrs Frank Leslie, 1894), 162.
Source note
The illustration's caption gives the date of the capture and burning as November 17, 1861.  All official records give the actual date as November 19, 1861. 
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