. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Eighteen forts, four batter-ies of heavy artillery, andtwenty-three of light ar-tillery were located betweenFort Sumner, on the Poto-mac above Georgetown, andFort Lincoln, near Bladens-burg, commanding the Bal-timore and Ohio Railroadand the upper Lincoln was profuselybut not heavily armed. Ithad two 8-inch siege-howitz-ers, six 32-pounder sea-coastguns, one 2-1-poundcr siege-gun, three L2-t-pounder sea-eoast guns, four 12-pounderfield-guns, and eight 6
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Eighteen forts, four batter-ies of heavy artillery, andtwenty-three of light ar-tillery were located betweenFort Sumner, on the Poto-mac above Georgetown, andFort Lincoln, near Bladens-burg, commanding the Bal-timore and Ohio Railroadand the upper Lincoln was profuselybut not heavily armed. Ithad two 8-inch siege-howitz-ers, six 32-pounder sea-coastguns, one 2-1-poundcr siege-gun, three L2-t-pounder sea-eoast guns, four 12-pounderfield-guns, and eight 6-pounder field-guns en bar-bette, with two 24-pounderfieli l-howitzera en concludes the list oftin smooth-bores, but therewere also a 100-pounderParrott anil four 20-pounderParrotts. Fort Lincoln wasa bastioned fort of four. THK INTERIOR OF FORT LINCOLN faces. One of the 20-pound-er Parrotts is just visibleover the top of the store-house, and the 100-pounderis in full view in the farcorner of the fort. Thiswas one of the first pointsfori died on the Northernlines about spade, seen leaningagainst the house to the leftof the pile of boxes, was thegreat weapon of lower photograph showsCompany H of the ThirdMassachusetts Heavy Artil-lery manning the muskets have beenleaned against the parapet,and the pile of shells to theright makes the great gunsglaring down the valleyseem form idable indeed. TheThird Massachusetts wasorganized from unattachedcompanies of heavy artilleryin August, 186-1, for thedefense of Washington.
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