Red Army Screaming

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Portrait of Russian sailors in America in 1863.

The sailors were part of a Russian fleet sent to the US to support the Union cause during the American Civil War. The fleet was used to discourage British intervention in the war and re-enforce the Union blockade of the Confederacy.

Russian sailors are buried at Mare Island naval yard, they died fighting a huge fire in San Francisco in 1863.