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Image ID: AFBX

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1865

Negative Size:

13 in. x 16 in.

Equipment:

Barbette carriage (front pintle-wood); bayonet; bugle; cannon; Columbiad gun; flag; handspike (wood); limber; long gun; rammer staff; scabbard; sponge staff; sword

Locations & Lines:

Fort Totten (Washington DC); Washington DC; District of Columbia

Military Units:

US Army

Sources:

Chrysler Museum of Art; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

National Archives says: Defenses of Washington, inside view. Fort Totten, near Rock Creek Church.

Post in left foreground reads: Lt. D.G. Houston. Fort Totten. Rock Creek Church.

Etched onto negative: 489. 78.

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