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300 pdr. [i.e. pounder] Parrot Rifle, Fort Chatfield, Morris Isand
Summary
Photograph shows a group of soldiers by the 300 pound Parrot rifled cannon with the name "Col. Brayton" inscribed on it in battery Chatfield on Morris Island.
No. 4308.
Hand written on verso: "Miller, vol. V, p. 117".
Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
Photograph is half of a stereograph pair.
Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
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Date
01/01/1861
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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