Fifteen inch gun at Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, Virginia, May 18, 1864

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Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state

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Alexandria, Virginia. 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers

Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, Virginia, April 15, 1864 (Andrew J. Russel)

Alexandria, Virginia. 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers

Alexandria, Virginia (vicinity). Battery Rodgers, erected in 1863, overlooking the Potomac river near Jones' Point. 15-inch Rodman gun (left). 200 pd. Parrott rifle and gun (right)

Photograph shows six Union soldiers positioning the fifteen inch Rodman gun at Battery Rodgers.

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Russell, Andrew J., photographer

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Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state

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