Union officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery pose beside thirteen-inch mortars, each weighing about 20,000 pounds, emplaced for a planned ass

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Union officers of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery pose beside thirteen-inch mortars, each weighing about 20,000 pounds, emplaced for a planned assault on Confederate forces at Yorktown on May 4, 1862. Photographed by James F. Gibson. Wet collodion glass-plate negative. This colourised version is a composit consisting of the two stereographs.

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Photo credit: © PD Archive / Alamy / Afripics
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