. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOI\L\C,MAY 18, 1864 AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THEGREAT HODMAN GUN SHOWNON THE PAGE PRECEDING. , REVIEW OF HEVIEAS CO. The 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers, near Alexandria, with a gun-detachment around it. Thescene was quiet the day this photograph was taken. The gunners little thought that within a few weeksthe city would be in a turmoil of excitement from Earlys attack on the northern defenses of battery was erected to guard the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOI\L\C,MAY 18, 1864 AN INTIMATE VIEW OF THEGREAT HODMAN GUN SHOWNON THE PAGE PRECEDING. , REVIEW OF HEVIEAS CO. The 15-inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers, near Alexandria, with a gun-detachment around it. Thescene was quiet the day this photograph was taken. The gunners little thought that within a few weeksthe city would be in a turmoil of excitement from Earlys attack on the northern defenses of battery was erected to guard the south side of Washington from an attack by the Confederate distance to mid-channel was 600 yards, and no vessel of a draft of twenty feet could pass at a greaterdistance than half a mile. The battery also enfiladed the channel for the full range of its guns. The mainface of the work was 135 feet long, and it had flanks of sixty and eighty feet. The wharf at Alexandria isvisible to the left, with a steamer loading supplies and a lighter close by. The size of the gun can be judgedfrom the little photograph, on the opposite page, of a soldier who has crawled, feet first, into the muzzle.
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