Image ID: ABCW

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1865.04.01
Negative Size:	4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:	Barbette carriage (front pintle-iron); cannon; handspike wrench; Parrott Rifle gun; rammer staff; sponge staff
Locations & Lines:	Fort Brady VA; Virginia
Military Units:	1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery; 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery (Company C); US Army
Sources:	Gilder Lehrman Institute; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; Virginia Historical Society

National Archives: Fort Brady on the James River, manned by Company C, 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery. (Battery ready for action)

Library of Congress says: Interior view of Fort Brady, James River, Va., near Dutch Gap Canal.

Virginia Historical Society says: Water Battery near Fort Brady, James River, Virginia, April 1, 1865.

Gilder Lehrman: Fort Brady [Image shows two cannons in a fortified trench, each manned by four soldiers].

Seeing the Civil War