Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AQWPm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 42 Mb

SKU ba27f71dab34 Category Field Photographs Tags Barbette carriage (center pintle-iron), cannon, Chesapeake Bay VA, Fort Monroe VA, Rodman gun, tompion, unknown photographer, US Army, Virginia

Image ID: AQWP

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1864
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	Barbette carriage (center pintle-iron); cannon; Rodman gun; tompion
Locations & Lines:	Chesapeake Bay VA; Fort Monroe VA; Virginia
Military Units:	US Army
Sources:	Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Fort Monroe, Va. The “Lincoln Gun,” a 15-inch Rodman Columbiad.

Originally called the “Floyd Gun.”

Etched onto negative: 13 [crossed out]. No. 419.