869215 New York artillerymen with a heavy gun in Fort Corcoran, spring 1862 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Seven Union artillerymen and two officers of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment posing in the spring of 1862 with a 24-pounder gun in Fort Corcoran, an earthen field-fortification erected atop Arlington Heights, Virginia, to help defend Washington, D. C. This is an M.1845 gun, mounted atop a front-pintle barbette-carriage; note the gunner at left is holding a container clearly labeled ?pass box,? while the officer seated casually on the edge of the gun-platform is believed to be Capt. Thomas D. Sears. Examples of a grapeshot, round-shot, and canister-shell are displayed on the ground beside him. This image has been enhanced by combining its original stereographic pair of wet-collodion glass negatives into a single extra-wide modern photograph, as well as being cleaned up and repaired); Battlefields in Motion, Ltd.; American, out of copyright.
px | px | dpi | = | cm | x | cm | = | MB |
Details
Creative#:
TOP27216538
Source:
達志影像
Authorization Type:
RM
Release Information:
須由TPG 完整授權
Model Release:
No
Property Release:
No
Right to Privacy:
No
Same folder images: