. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . GPiRlGHT. 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. BRINGING UP THE MORTARS AT BUTLERS CROWS NEST So annoying to the Unionforce at Dutch Gap, diggingthe canal in 1804, did thefire of the Confederate bat-teries become, that a bat-tery and lookout wereestablished above the upper photographshows the big mortars of thebattery being placed in posi-tion. They are old style10-inch mortars and verydifficult to handle A look-out with a i-n iws-uest on topcan be seen in the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . GPiRlGHT. 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. BRINGING UP THE MORTARS AT BUTLERS CROWS NEST So annoying to the Unionforce at Dutch Gap, diggingthe canal in 1804, did thefire of the Confederate bat-teries become, that a bat-tery and lookout wereestablished above the upper photographshows the big mortars of thebattery being placed in posi-tion. They are old style10-inch mortars and verydifficult to handle A look-out with a i-n iws-uest on topcan be seen in the is where the signalmen did their work. Dur-ing the imprisonment of theConfederate Meet above(haffins Bluff, their crewsand officers served close were 1 he (Confeder-ate batteries that with aspy-glass some naval offi-cers actually recognized. some of their former com-panions in the Federal ser-vice. That it was no easytask to install this battery isileal- from the gigantic para-phernalia to move big gnus,shown in the lower photo-graph. This was a giantsling-cart used by the Fed-erals in removing capturedordnance from the batterieson the James River belowRichmond, after there wasno more use for the batteryshown above. By meansof this apparatus the heavi-est siege and sea-coast can-non could be moved. Thecart was placed over thepiece, ropes run under thetrunnions and the cascabel,or knob, on the rear of thegun, and a large pole placedin the muzzle for the accom-modation of another rope. A SLING (ART MOVING A HEAVY GUN Wit? iFrforal GMnanrr •*•
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