Stereo card has a yellow mount and is titled on the edges “PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY” and “THE WAR FOR THE UNION.”

Reverse has a blue label with a printed caption that reads “WAR VIEWS” and “MONITOR “CASCO, JAMES RIVER, VA. NEAR DUTCH GAP NO. 2692.”

Image is a full-length view of the ship from above and off to one side. The camera must have been situated on a bluff by the James River.

View is clear with excellent contrast.

USS CASCO was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy. She was armed with one11-inch Dalhgren smooth-bore gun and one spar torpedo.

After completion of additional yard work, CASCO was towed to Hampton Roads in March 1865. She assisted in the removal of mines in the James River which made possible the advance of naval forces to Richmond, VA. In mid-April she was transferred to the Potomac Flotilla, with whom she served until the end of May. CASCO was decommissioned 10 June 1865 at Washington Navy Yard. In the widespread ship-renamings that took place in June 1869, CASCO was given the new name HERO. She saw no further active service, and she was broken up in April 1875.  [ad]

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