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File Details: AQJCm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 40.1 Mb
| Credit: | unknown photographer |
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| Date: | 1862-1865 |
| Equipment: | cannon; Columbiad gun |
| Locations & Lines: | Cockspur Island (Savannah GA); Fort Pulaski GA; Georgia; Savannah GA; Savannah River |
| Military Units: | CS Army; US Army |
| Sources: | Library of Congress |
Library of Congress says: Damaged brick fortifications of Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Georgia, after bombardment by Union troops on April 10, 1862.
Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. I, p361: The Closing of Savannah, April 12, 1862. This terrific punishment was inflicted upon the nearest angle of the fort by the thirty-six heavy rifled cannon and the mortars which the Federals had planted on Big Tybee Island, and by the gunboats which had found a channel enabling them to get in the rear of the fort.