Exploded gun in Confederate battery, Yorktown

Photograph shows a soldier sitting on a damaged parapet at a Confederate fort southeast of Yorktown, overlooking debris from an exploded 32-pounder Navy gun.

Brady's Album Gallery, no. 455.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

Stamped on verso: Nov. 28, 1949, source unknown.

Digitized, 2014. Funding from The Center for Civil War Photography.

Original glass negative may be available: LC-B811-2370.

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