. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . re:\iovixg powder from confederate torpedoes 1864 In this photograph is one of the stations established for extracting jjowdcr from the torpedoes dredged up bytlie Federal gunboats in the James. \Mien the activities of the Army of the Potomac centered about tlie Jamesand the Appomattox in 1864 and I860, it became the paramount dutj of the cooperating navy to render thetorpedo-infested streams safe for the passage of transports and supply vessels. The powder in these channelshelped to guard Richmond from the Union gimboats. In the f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . re:\iovixg powder from confederate torpedoes 1864 In this photograph is one of the stations established for extracting jjowdcr from the torpedoes dredged up bytlie Federal gunboats in the James. \Mien the activities of the Army of the Potomac centered about tlie Jamesand the Appomattox in 1864 and I860, it became the paramount dutj of the cooperating navy to render thetorpedo-infested streams safe for the passage of transports and supply vessels. The powder in these channelshelped to guard Richmond from the Union gimboats. In the foreground sit two old salts discussing ways andmeans of rendering one of the deadly infernal machines harmless, while all about in this quiet nook lie remainsof the dreaded submarine menaces that were constantly lieing placed in the cliannel by the Confederates.
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