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Title
Water Battery (400 Pounder) Alex Va
Alternative Title
Fifteen-inch gun at Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, May 18, 1864.
Creator
Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Date Created and/or Issued
1864
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
United States Civil War
Rights Information
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Description
Six Union soldiers are seen positioning the fifteen-inch Rodman gun at Battery Rodgers.
"No. 30" handwritten in pencil in top left corner Alternate title derived from captioned print, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division: LOT 4336, no. 62.
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photographic print : albumen.
Identifier
photCL 301 (104)
449876
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5845
Subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union
Artillery (Weaponry )--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Forts & fortifications--Union--Virginia--Alexandria--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source
Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Gift of Marilyn Clough, 2014.

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