mortars

[Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighin...

Photograph shows soldiers standing at cannons. Title and date from catalog record for associated negative: LC-B811-375.

A formidable weapon in trench warfare photo by Central News Photo Serv...

Photograph shows a French trench mortar in position for firing with two French soldiers nearby, one on a wooden walkway over the mud, the other is using a shovel in a hole or trench, on the Somme front in Franc... More

[Two trench mortars behind sandbagged barricade]

Title devised by library staff. Brady/Eaton Coll. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery with McClellan's No. 1 mortar ...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

French mortars, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows mortars on display at the Allied Bazaar, Grand Central Palace, New York City, June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014) Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative... More

Fort Benning. 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the A...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Germanna Mills - Public domain scan / drawing

Ruined mill. Signed lower right: AR Waud. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed left of image: Sand grey. Inscribed left to right above image: Apple tree, White mortar wide, Slate colored stone /Yellow mortar,... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

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

Trowel used at laying of corner stone. With this trowel Miss Helen Sco...

Title from Red Cross caption card. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.... More

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Architectural Remains, Unit B, Sub-unit 76, Jamestown, James City Coun...

Significance: Structure 16 had a long rectangular footprint measuring 34' x 12' with framed side walls and north gable end. The walls rested on sills underpinned by a single row of brick footings. The south gab... More

[Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[Morris Island, S.C. Federal mortars aimed at Fort Sumter, with crews]

Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[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 Batt...

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

[James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

A hot day in the batteries / W. Simpson delt. ; E. Walker lith.

Print shows action in a British artillery battery, mortar fire, mortars and cannon being loaded, the removal of wounded, and in the distance, the fortifications of Sevastopolʹ. Plate in: The seat of war in the... More

Siege of Yorktown, Virginia Federal Battery No. 4 mounting ten 13 inch...

No. 4178. Illus. in: E468.7 .G2, Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 14. Hand written on verso: Miller, vol. V, p. 23. ... More

Fort Benning 60 mm. mortars. A couple of experts at slowing up the Axi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military training, armed forces fort, camp, exercise activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Battery, No. 4--near Yorktown, mounting 10 13-inch mortars, each weigh...

Gift; Mrs. Norman P. Mason; 1963 Oct. No. 375. Printed on verso: from photographic negative from Brady's National Portrait Gallery. In album: Cartes-de-visite portraits of U.S. Army officers, children, and oth... More

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars...

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Edwin M. Stanton, January 25, 1862 (Memorandum on Mortars)

Architectural Remains, Unit B, Sub-unit 76, Jamestown, James City Coun...

Significance: Structure 16 had a long rectangular footprint measuring 34' x 12' with framed side walls and north gable end. The walls rested on sills underpinned by a single row of brick footings. The south gab... More

[Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

Gurkhas train in Malayan jungle The 9th Burkhas have had some extensiv...

Photograph shows soldiers from a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army with rifles and mortar, crouched in grasses. British Official photo: BF 237. No. BO 768. Forms part of: FSA/OWI Collection (Library o... More

James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest"

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

Battery of mortars and light twelves. Lt. Jackson. 1st Connecticut hea...

Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, pp. 504-505, as part of: General Grant's Campaign In the trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.170) R... More

[Battery Reynolds. Five 10-inch siege mortars against Wagner]

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Federal mortar battery on Morri...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

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

Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. Gas demonstration. Firing of 4.2 inch chem...

Public domain photograph of Maryland in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Pat" (T/Sgt. Patenaude) zeroing in with the 60 mm mortars in front of...

Sketch showing soldier from behind in France. Annotation at page top: German patrol took Hirshberg today. In album: World War II sketchbooks from the Victor A. Lundy Archive, v. 8, [p. 7] Victor A. Lundy Archi... More

Battery of mortars and light twelves. Lt. Jackson. 1st Connecticut hea...

Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, August 6, 1864, pp. 504-505, as part of: General Grant's Campaign In the trenches before Petersburg. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.170) R... More

Detroit, Michigan. Conference between U.S. Army ordnance and washing m...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The mortars in the Imperial Gunpowder Factory] / the photograph studi...

Title translated from album caption. Captioned in Ottoman Turkish and French. No. 47. Photograph taken by the Imperial School of Engineering Photography Unit. (Source: Imperial self-portrait: The Ottoman Empir... More

Fort Gregg, Morris Island, S.C. This is a mortar battery, and this vie...

Photograph shows Union soldiers in the Confederate mortar battery Gregg which became Fort Putnam on Morris Island, facing Charleston, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Printed ... More

Fire away galop - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Fire away galop - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Siege of Yorktown, Virginia Views of Federal Battery, No. 4

Soldiers with three 13 inch mortars. LC-B811-375. Civil War Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Original glass negative no.: LC-B811-375. Caption card ... More

[Morris Island, South Carolina. Battery Weed. Five 10-inch siege morta...

A black and white photo of a snow covered hill. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Stereo filed in LOT 4166. Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20,000 pounds. South end. ... More

Fire away galop - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Architectural Remains, Unit B, Sub-unit 76, Jamestown, James City Coun...

Significance: Structure 16 had a long rectangular footprint measuring 34' x 12' with framed side walls and north gable end. The walls rested on sills underpinned by a single row of brick footings. The south gab... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

The mortar batteries at Sandy Hook, defending the approaches to New Yo...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1898 April 7, p. 220. Reproduction of painting by Charles Beecher Bunnell.

[Two trench mortars behind sandbagged barricade]

Title devised by library staff. Brady/Eaton Coll. Forms part of: Civil War Photographs (Anthony-Taylor-Rand-Ordway-Eton collection).

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

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

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Federal mortar battery on Morri...

Caption from negative sleeve: Mortar Battery, Morris Island, S.C. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3518A) and right (LC-B811-3518B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-B. Credit line: ... More

Trench mortar in its well-timbered chamber, view looking straight down

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18905. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Fire away galop - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Fire away galop - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Fire away galop - Public domain American piano sheet music

[Charleston, S.C. Mortars inside Fort Moultrie]

Photographs of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Charleston, S.C., 1863-1865.

[James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865.

Bombardment of Island "Number ten" in the Mississippi River: By the gu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0666.

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20,000 pounds. South end. May 1862. Two plates form ... More

Charleston, South Carolina (vicinity). Federal mortar battery on Morri...

Caption from negative sleeve: Mortar Battery, Morris Island, S.C. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3518A) and right (LC-B811-3518B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-B. Credit line: ... More

James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest"

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Ordnance (?)

Caption from negative sleeve: Coehorns, Mortars & heavy guns. Broadway Landing, Richmond, Va 1865. Two plates form left (LC-B811-7A) and right (LC-B811-7B) halves of a stereograph pair. Corresponding print is i... More

Edwin M. Stanton, January 25, 1862 (Memorandum on Mortars)

Architectural Remains, Unit B, Sub-unit 76, Jamestown, James City Coun...

Significance: Structure 16 had a long rectangular footprint measuring 34' x 12' with framed side walls and north gable end. The walls rested on sills underpinned by a single row of brick footings. The south gab... More

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Yorktown, Virginia. Confederate battery with McClellan's No. 1 mortar ...

Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate Battery Yorktown ? McClellan, No 1 Battery in the Distance, June 1862. Corresponding print is in LOT 4166-J. Credit line: Civil war ... More

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Stereo filed in LOT 4166. Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20,000 pounds. South end. ... More

James River, Virginia Work party and mortars at "Butler's Crow's Nest"

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library... More

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Henry A. Wise to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, February 14, 1862 (Sends dr...

Troops in Australia. In the final assault on Buna, American light tank...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Image source: Australian Commonwealth photo. Title and other information from caption card. T... More

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

French mortars - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows mortars on display at the Allied Bazaar, Grand Central Palace, New York City, June 1916. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014)

Yorktown, Virginia. Battery No. 4 mounting 13-inch mortars. South end

Photographer name from negative sleeve: James F. Gibson. Caption from negative sleeve: Battery No. 4 near Yorktown mounting ten 13 inch mortars each weighing 20,000 pounds. South end. May 1862. Two plates form ... More

Army and Navy Officers at St. Louis to Henry W. Halleck, Tuesday, Dece...

First in France--U.S. Marines / John A. Coughlin.

Poster showing a Marine carrying a mortar into combat, with American flag behind.

Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity). Battery No. 4, mounting 13-inch mortars...

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Types of 12" Mortars for seacoast - Watervliet

Public domain photograph of a train car, locomotive, engine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Supply boats and stores

Two plates form left (LC-B811-4A) and right (LC-B811-4B) halves of a stereograph pair. Caption from Civil War Richmond, www.mdgorman.com: Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing. An Eight Inch Columbiad, captured fr... More

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

Broadway Landing, Appomattox River, Virginia. Supply boats and stores

Two plates form left (LC-B811-4A) and right (LC-B811-4B) halves of a stereograph pair. Caption from Civil War Richmond, www.mdgorman.com: Ordnance Depot at Broadway Landing. An Eight Inch Columbiad, captured fr... More

Edwin M. Stanton, January 25, 1862 (Memorandum on Mortars)