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Yorktown, Virginia. 13-inch seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4

Yorktown, Virginia. 13-inch seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4, Yorktown, Va. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General inform... More

Troops pose on a Model B Ammunition truck manufactured by The Four Wheel Drive Corporation (FWD). In the background troops load a 12-inch Railway Mortar. The mortar sits on 12-inch Mortar carriage, M1896, which sits on a specially designed rail car. The coastal defense mortars or Seacoast Mortars were designed to fire 700-pound projectiles in a high arc and strike battleships and cruisers on their decks where armor plating is relatively thin. (THIS IMAGE MIGHT BE AT FORT TILDEN, NEW YORK)

Troops pose on a Model B Ammunition truck manufactured by The Four Whe...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4, right bank of Wormley's Creek

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4, right bank of Wormley's Creek

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery

Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batte...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of... More

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery]

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4 with officers of 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery]

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4, right bank of Wormley's Creek]

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Battery No. 4, right bank of Wormley's Creek]

[Yorktown, Virginia, vicinity. 13-in. seacoast mortars of Federal Batt...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862.