Image ID: ALPG

Credit:

by Cooley (Samuel A.)

Date:

1865

Negative Size:

4 in. x 6.5 in. stereo

Equipment:

bayonet scabbard; canister shot; cannon; gunner’s haversack; mortar (13 inch); shell tongs

Locations & Lines:

Charleston harbor; Charleston SC; Fort Gregg (Morris Island SC); Fort Putnam (Morris Island SC); Morris Island SC; South Carolina

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress

Photographic History. The War For The Union. War Views. No. 3513. Mortar Battery, Morris Island, S.C. [Anthony Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews.

Anthony No. 3513.

Etched onto negative: 3513.