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| Credit: | unknown photographer |
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| Date: | 1865 |
| Negative Size: | stereo |
| Equipment: | cannon; Rodman gun; solid shot |
| Locations & Lines: | Castle Pinckney SC; Charleston harbor; Charleston SC; South Carolina |
| Military Units: | CS Army; US Army |
| Sources: | Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection |
Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 5, p181: The gun overlooking the parapet of Castle Pinckney is a 15-inch Columbiad which used a powder charge of 40 pounds. The projectile weighed 428 pounds. A large number of these projectiles are stacked in the foreground. With an elevation of twenty degrees, the maximum range of this gun was 3,787 yards, or a little over two miles. This fort was used as a prison for Union captives in 1861.