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File Details: AKYMm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 47.2 Mb

Image ID: AKYM

Credit:

unknown photographer

Date:

1864

Negative Size:

stereo

Equipment:

barrel; bayonet; cap box; gabion; long gun; sandbag

Locations & Lines:

Fort Brady VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 6705. Powder Magazine on the Lines. this view gives a good idea of how the ammunition was protected in the forts and batteries along the lines; first a room is built of heavy logs spiked together, then the logs are covered with earth to a thickness sufficient to prevent a shell from penetrating to the magazine. the basket works, “gabions,” are filled with earth and place around the entrance to prevent the earth from caving in if a shell explodes on the magazine. Thus protected it is rarely that a magazine is exploded. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Fort Brady, Va. Entrance to magazine.

Anthony No. 2705.

Etched onto negative: 2705.

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