Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AJWFm, 1000 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 15.7 Mb

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Image ID: AJWF

Credit:

by Browne (William F.)
Date:

1865.05
Negative Size:

5 in. x 10 in. stereo
Equipment:

canister shot; Parrott shell; solid shot
Locations & Lines:

Drewry’s Bluff VA; Fort Darling VA; Virginia
Military Units:

1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery; US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Fort Darling Chaplain’s quarters (Fort Darling VA)
Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia. Chaplains quarters. 1st Conn. Heavy Artillery in Confederate Fort Darling. Part of shot and shell in foreground was fired by U.S. Gunboats in attack on fort in 1862.

Etched onto negative: 1134.

Only the left half of the original stereo negative survives.

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