. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^2iiich rifles en barbette, and six (i-])(iunder James rifles rii i-mhrnxiire. Italso boasted three mortars, one 10-inch siege-mortar, and two 2+-pounder Coehorns, and there were thirteen vacant platforms forfield and siege-guns. The terrain on which the work was placed was such as to enable it to shelter a large body of troops with naturalcover. The first gun on the right in this photograph is a 32-pounder sea-coast gun in an embrasure; the second is a 4J 2-inch riflein an embrasure; the third is a lOO-pounder Parrott en barbette;
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^2iiich rifles en barbette, and six (i-])(iunder James rifles rii i-mhrnxiire. Italso boasted three mortars, one 10-inch siege-mortar, and two 2+-pounder Coehorns, and there were thirteen vacant platforms forfield and siege-guns. The terrain on which the work was placed was such as to enable it to shelter a large body of troops with naturalcover. The first gun on the right in this photograph is a 32-pounder sea-coast gun in an embrasure; the second is a 4J 2-inch riflein an embrasure; the third is a lOO-pounder Parrott en barbette; and the gun on the left is a 412-inch rifle en barbette. The first andfourth guns are on wooden sea-coast carriages; the second on a siege-carriage; and the Parrott rifle on a wrought-iron sea-coast ONE OF THE HEAVY ARTILLERY REGIMENTS THAT WASHINGTON LACKED IN 64 The Third Pennsylvania heavy artillerists, as they drill in Fort Monroe, .\pril. 1864, are the tyjie of trained big gun fighters that Wash-ington needed by thousands when Early swept up to Fort Stevens, threatening to take it three months after this picture was taken,[f—7] iffrnsfs at of Congress making appropriations for tlie defenses of thecajjital read as follows: Be it enacted, etc., etc., that the sum of one hundred andfifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated,out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,for completing the defenses of AVashington; Provided, Thatall arrearages of debts incurred for the objects of this actshall be first paid out of this sum: ^Ind Provided Fiirtlier,That no j)art of the sum hereby appropriated shall be ex-pended in any work hereafter to be commenced. General J. G. Barnard, who, prior to the passage of theact above quoted, had been in engineering
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